Tex Mess, Means-Test Dummy Biden 2.18.21

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one seventy two,
Episode three of The Days Like Guys, the production of
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a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Thursday,
February one. My name is Jack O'Brien a K. I'm
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joined by my co host, Mr Miles Grag Sorry, and
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find your fighting talk radio racist vitriol anyway, So shout
out to Christie am Apucci Mane coming in one more
time with that wonderful A thank you m M. And
we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
by the hilarious and talented Danny Fernande. Here you are.

(01:59):
I don't have an I always sing my A K S.
Mine was going to be Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan
Dan No, the Dlorian. I love when everyone called him
the dad DeLorean. No, those are his roles now because

(02:19):
he's in the last of Us thing. Now, he's like
the the begrudgingly you know, good dad last of us felt.
I was like, I can't believe I didn't think of that,
because like when I saw it, I was like, yes, yes,
exactly what are we talking about, Oh, Pedro Pascal is
going to be in the movie series or oh is

(02:42):
it a series? Oh maybe it's a series or whatever
it is. You're saying, you can't believe you didn't think
of what that Pedro Pascal in in that role. Yeah,
of course, of course. I mean Jackie was right in
front of you, but in front of time, I feel
like I'm in Usual Suspects right now. Just put all

(03:02):
the pieces together. Yeah, he's kind of popping up everywhere,
and will it feels like somebody I will never get
tired of seeing, because I mean, for you, I like
when I watched things like old stuff from the early
aughts and nineties, I'm like, Pedro Pascal husband, he's been
out here, but like you know, I'm like, oh, ship,

(03:24):
he was in Buffy or these other things. He realized
he was working. But then I'm like, in my mind,
he really didn't get pop until he was over and Martell.
And I'm not sure if like there were performances before
that that had people being like, no, Pedro Pascal is
a thing, but that I'm wondering if everyone's on the
same page where that was truly my introduction to him
was through Game of Thrones. I don't know, I think Narcos, yeah,

(03:49):
but I mean, I definitely it might have been like
right around the same time. I definitely should have recognized
him from Game of Thrones, but he was kind of
so different and like there was a he did a
weird thing in narco Is where like at first, you
like you didn't know what to make of his character
and him as a performer at first for me, and
I was like, huh, is this guy a really good

(04:09):
actor or like kind of weird and not acting and
then he just like ends up being incredible in the role. Um,
but yeah, he's he's dope. Um, all right, Danny, we're
gonna get to know you a little bit better in
a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a couple
of things we're talking about. We're gonna talk about student

(04:29):
debt forgiveness. We're gonna talk about, uh, the Republican Civil War,
just a quick check in with that. Uh. We're gonna
talk about Texas the mayor who told everybody what uh
you know, I mean detected. Yeah, yeah, told everybody the

(04:50):
truth about the American ethos. We're gonna talk about. Uh. Member,
Zeit Getg reached out to us from San Antonio just
to tell us what it looks like on the around there.
We also got some New York Times reporting, some Houston
Crown reporting. Uh so lesser sources also confirmed the reporting
from Zeitgang. Uh, we'll talk about Fox News is decade

(05:13):
long war against wind power. Uh. That is the story
that first came out. They managed to get it bubbling up.
At first, it was like, well, all the wind turbines
are frozen. Uh, so what are we gonna do? Uh?
And and then it slowly comes out that's not actually
what's happening. Uh. We'll talk about Rush Limbaugh, uh, pioneer. Uh.

(05:35):
The I just want to like read some of his words, uh,
to kind of memorialize him. Uh. We'll talk about that
Cruella trailer. We'll talk about Parlor being back, all that
plenty more. But first, Danny, we like to ask our guest,
what is something from your search history that is revealing
about who you are? My last search was the truth

(05:57):
about Dolly Parton's eleven Sibley. Yeah. I love that with
Dolly Parton. I love her. My search terms like come
across like I have, like I've suffered some sort of
head trauma. I'm like Dolly Parton eleven siblings has question mark.
But your your search is like straight up like a

(06:23):
clickbait headline. Like the way you read it, I thought
you just straight up copied the text of a clickbait
like you know, okay, I thought you were just that's
just how you searched it. I'm like, this is the
truth about what happened. No, it's just she has I'm

(06:43):
listening to her audio book, which is amazing. She has
one on audible which it goes through all of her
songs she talks about and it's her talking. She talks
about the history behind all of her songs and if
you just love Dolly and like she just sounds like
someone's sweet aunt. That's like offering you sweet tea and
giving you a hug. She's amazing. Aside from all the
things she did during this pandemic and the Black Lives

(07:05):
Matter protest, she's just an amazing woman. But um yeah,
so so she was talking about her her paw and
her siblings, and she like kept rattling names off of
like how many siblies does this woman happen? She's eleven?
What and it's it's it's wild and she's just done
so much philanthropy with all of her money. And also

(07:28):
her husband. People don't know that she's been married once
to the same man since like the sixties, but you
never see him. She has she's figured that out. She's
figured out that's a secret to so he's just a
millionaire with her, living it up in their mansion. Whenever
she comes home, he's there. That's her her stay at
home husband. Damn, the photos of him are great. There's

(07:51):
barely any I know. It's like three from the eighties,
two from the seventies, and then like the last one
must have been from like two thousand four. She just
stays off, you know. But it's really funny in the book,
you guys, she's like, everyone thinks I had an affair
with such and such, or everyone thinks I slept with

(08:12):
so and so, And I'm not saying anything, but like,
you guys, so I'm like a girl. I think it's
funny when people don't confirm, like it would be like,
of course I didn't, but she didn't say that. So
I'm like, I wonder if he's chill, like as long
as he gets to be a multimillionaire with her, if
he's like sure, have an affair with uh Burt Reynolds
or whatever. People think that she had an affair with

(08:33):
like multiple different men that she's worked with, but I
mean maybe she has. She's acting. These are Carl's birthday
wishes for me, as long as he gets to you know,
get some pictures, yeah, smell the sheets after uh yeah,
The pictures of him are dope, especially like from the

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seventies and eighties and the later ones too, because you're like,
this motherfucker must be cool as ship because he looks
got a fan taking a photo and she's loving it.
I'm like, in a way, it makes you more curious.
But that's that's the real power. Like people who don't
share ship there they haven't figured out, because that's truly

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like the last thing you can keep to yourself is
your privacy without like going full throttle into like the
look at me, take a photo of me over here?
Is that ship? Yeah? Like it burns out and I
think it only just magnifies her, you know, the mystique
around it all. Yeah, yeah, Dolly. Dolly Parton's got secrets

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and that's what makes her cool. Secret husband, secret tattoos,
although not as many sibling. Wow, do you think people
go out there and lie that they're one of Dolly
Parton's like nieces or nets, Like people say they're related
to Bob Marley because that's the one you always oh,
you know, that's that's Bob Marley. That's like the third

(09:56):
cousin of Kaimani Marley. Because there's so many Marley Kids.
I wander like the if that's the same thing on Appalachia.
I hear that with Disney because a lot of people
have that last name, or like they're more than you
would think, I guess. And so does that mean that
they're all related to Walt Disney, because that's not that's
a pretty unique his name. Is everyone that has the
last named Disney related to Walt Disney? I don't know, Chiming,

(10:18):
let us know Chiming, let us know Zeke Kang with
the last named Disney. Also, let us cut three. What
is something you think is underrated? Underrated? We're actually going
to talk about it. But for me, is the South? Um?
I think, especially because I live now in l A.
I think a lot of like quote unquote coastal elites

(10:39):
or whatever, which people always laughed at me, And I'm like,
I literally grew up in Frisco, Texas. Like, I don't
know why you're using this term. Also, I think Texas
is the South. I want to go on record, but
by saying that, I don't know, I don't understand how
it's not considered the South when one of its cities
is like the most southern place in America. But literally,
quite literally the South. Um. But it's not considered the

(11:03):
South for a lot of people. So I find that fascinating.
I guess it's its own little We've always thought of
ourselves as like this little I don't know, wild West,
like not West, I guess, but wild South country. Um. Anyways,
I think that it's I think a lot of people
think of the South as being racist, and what they
don't realize is that it's very, very very diverse, um,

(11:24):
especially Texas if you look at the Latino and Black
population there um. And so I think it's a little
insane and I'm sure we'll tackle some of that when
we talk about Texas, but the South is heavily diverse.
So I think just chalking up all of those states
to white, racist people is not cool. Right, also underrates

(11:46):
how extremely racist northern states are. Yes, yeah, because everyone's oh,
it's like the same other way you know, the US
like thumbs or noses that like burgeoning socialist countries that
they overthrow and they're like, you see what happens over there,
like you need that, you sort of need that base
of comparison to put yourself at another place Like that's
so sloppy. Over there. Ignore the part that we're engineering

(12:08):
the downfall of it. But that's why you don't want that,
And we always we always need someone relative to It's
just human nature, you know. Maybe do you think it's
because a lot of people don't think of it? Is
like I feel like a lot of people's definition of
the South is so tied to the Civil War. But
then like most people don't realize, like you know, Texas
seceded from the then the Union too, and like that's

(12:31):
like a I don't know, Like I feel like that's
always the idea that I always evoked when I think
of the South, which is why I like, for whatever reason,
I compartmentalize or think Texas is different, mostly because Texans,
I know, tell me it's different. Yeah, I mean it is.
But also like a lot of that land was Mexico,
and like a lot, like a lot of the black

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population that was forced to be there is still that
has like you know, um Boughton Home, like have several
generations there, and so like to just chalk it all
up to white people is just not true, is frankly
not true. And so I'm just really tired of like
when anything happens to the South that you know liberal
or or you know people in east and West coast

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or like, well you deserve that because you guys are
Red states or whatever. And I think that that's gross.
But I also think that that's not true. Um. Yeah,
I saw people the voters. I saw people talking about
that on Twitter, like responding to a comment that I
hadn't seen the original comment, but basically being like, I
don't think people should actually die because they live in

(13:37):
a southern like red state. What was that like a
sentiment that was going around, Like I guess it was.
I had tweeted um yesterday about some of my because
a lot of my high school classmates are still in Texas,
and so I was I was tweeting some of what
they're going through right now, and um, I said, you know,
I was just saying that it's it is diverse as

(13:59):
fun and and um, I think people were dunking on
Ted Cruise. I think because Ted Cruz made fun of
Californians when we were going through a crisis. It's like
think people were dunking on using his own words. However,
it spun out into it was literally people telling Texans
like go f yourself and um and it was from
liberal people, So it was really wild that us, you know,

(14:23):
our our side that considers itself progressive, you know, does that.
And yeah, yeah, I'm sure you can get into that
more with Texas. I have some stuff to say about
the Texas stuff because I do have friends that are
like also on the ground there and some of their
experiences that they're dealing with. So yeah, I think the
in group out group sort of dynamic of you know,

(14:47):
looking down on Southern people, looking down on you know,
people who are into culture like Nascar and ship like
that is probably one of the larger biases that uh
doesn't get addressed as much in in mainstream culture. And
I think also like probably on shows like this that

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like there's probably that part of the country and that
part of culture gets painted with a single brush, and
it's probably more diverse too in terms of how people think, Um,
what is something you think is overrated? Okay, this is
a double negative. But not wearing makeup even though I'm

(15:32):
not wearing makeup right now and you all can see that.
I think it's like all there was like this huge push,
which I get it to like be natural and like
all these like you know, no filter no makeup like whatever,
Like I'm not and I'm like, but makeup makes me
feel good and like it's there my friend. A lot
of my friends are makeup artists, and so I think
it's so weird when guys are like guys like you

(15:53):
know that thing, that meme that will go around and
it'll be like make sure you take her in the
pool on the first day or like you know what
I'm talking about. Have you seen those yeah, so you
can see him in a bathing suit. It's like, no,
I know, it's yeah, just that talks to you because
you've got a no, dude, it's like what they look

(16:17):
like in the club, okay, look like I don't also
like and I don't like the people some of the
celebrities that will do like the no makeup challenge or whatever.
I'm like, you're literally, but you also have like thousands
of dollars worth of skincare, like you know what I mean,
And so I don't know. I love makeup and I
love like my friends that are makeup artists. It makes

(16:39):
me feelly good and it's really therapeutic. It's like, you know,
like thirty minutes you can just do nothing and kind
of like paint. It's honestly like painting, like and it's
really you know, some people do it and such. I
follow a lot of cause players that do it in
such an artistic way. But anyways, I was going to say,
I get it, as long as you're not being like
toxic to people where you're trying to like that's what

(17:00):
I feel people try to do with me. And I
don't even wear a lot, but people will try to
shame you about like you know, you don't need makeup
or whatever, Like I'm just tired of people were makeup
or you don't realize you don't need makeup. Yeah, and
I'm like, but I did, Like that's just tell me
it looks good, you know or whatever. I don't know.
So that's my thing that I think is over is

(17:20):
like everyone's saying like be natural whatever, and it's like, okay,
cool if you want to be like some of us
like and some people like that's literally my friends professions,
that's their careers. They get hired to do that and
so and they love it. So makeup artist is what
it is. I'm down for me. I love makeup. So sorry, no, no,

(17:43):
I think that every time. Yeah, Jack and I just
can't dial in our makeup application as much as we like,
we're we're trying to use a beauty blender. It's not well,
I'm literally not wearing any right now because y'all have
seen me so much and I don't care. But if
I did put it on for you and you were like, wow,
you that looks beautiful, that would be nice. It doesn't

(18:04):
have to be, Oh Danny, you don't. You don't need
it right right right? And what do you do with that?
And makeup on your cute and don't need it? It's like,
what kind of thing is that to say to anyone?
Right now? People are wild? Yeah, well people people must
let you know they have an opinion too. Yes, okay,
that's fine, but I don't need it. Oh. It feels

(18:27):
like it's of a piece with the you're beautiful because
you don't know how beautiful you are music. It's like
funk off, like so hot and you don't even know it.
But that that is a whole exploit that that is
a meaning you have low self esteem about about like

(18:49):
taking her in the pool or whatever, like, and I'm like,
you just sound so toxic and gross, like maybe that's
why you're single, and like if a girl got all
dulled up for me, I would feel very special. Yeah,
I'm like all that energy and I'm like, I'm sorry,
I'm wearing a sweatsuit. I'm sorry for that. But yeah,
those the same people that ven diagram is a circle

(19:10):
where it's people who post that meme and the same
dudes who say females yes. It's also not like a
subtle like life hack. It's not like here's how you
get it's hey, girl, you want to go swimming? Like February,
what are you talking about? The deceptors bro verify Like Okay, look,

(19:34):
just because like what your parents marriage ended because of
a lack of communication, doesn't mean that's how all people work.
M hm. Alright, let's take a quick break and we'll
be right back. And we're back, and let's talk about

(20:00):
student depth forgiveness one of the other. Uh Joe Biden
promises that'd be cool. Huh, yay, you've been talking about
it a lot of people, alright, moving exactly pretty much
with Joe Biden. Did you know a lot of people
progressives been saying dollars in student debt relief would go

(20:21):
a hell of a long way for people especially right
now when incomes are limited. Uh, it allows for you know,
tangible upward mobility when you relieve these these burdens up
from people. Um, and you know, Joe Biden was like, yeah,
we can talk about that. But then at a town
hall someone made the mistake of asking Uncle Joe for

(20:43):
some money, and you know how that goes. So let's
play this. This is from a town hall where dude
just taking Oh that thing that Elizabeth Warren and Chuck
Schumer we're talking about. Yeah, yeah, we're gonna dead that
loans are crushing my family, friends and fellow all Americans
to the American dream is to succeed. But how he said,

(21:04):
oh yeah, we're gonna have to pause that. And then
he see you think I'm kidding? Okay, who they're crushing?
Joe Biden student debts the homies from your gaming discord,
like who are you talking about? Who are you talking about?
And he really also his body language, his arms are

(21:25):
crossed across when he gets mad. Yeah, when he knows
he's wrong, and his response is to get cranky and
mean and angry. Yeah, exactly because he knows he's going
to have to look fucking well. I mean he's just
he's can of a curmudgeon anyway. Can I guess that
a come on man is coming or something along those lines?
If I mean, we'll take prop bets now, if you
want to lay it down all right? Can dream is

(21:47):
to succeed? But how can we fulfill that dream when
debt is many people's only option for a degree. We
need student loan forgiveness beyond the potential ten thousand dollars.
Your administration has a proposed we need at least a minimum.
What will you do to make that happen? Or will
not make that happen? It depends on whether or not

(22:08):
you go to a private university or public university. Oh boy,
guys already jackal and hide himself. Hey, mom, let me
get some money so I could put in on a
limousine for prom I will not make that happen. Okay,
I'll sell drugs. But like I mean, I know we

(22:31):
none of us trust politicians. But it's like so he
could have kept it up like a little bit longer
where he like, yes, yes, he does try to pivot. Okay,
he tries to explain why he's being cruel and maybe
just for a second, listen to lar this cruelty is necessary.
We can get on the same page. This is his logic.
University or public university. It depends on the idea that

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I say to a community, I'm going to forgive the debt,
the billions of dollars the debt for people who have
gone to Harvard and Yale and Penn and school with
my children. I went to a great school. I went
to a state school. Um, but is that going to
be forgiven rather than use that money to provide for
early education for young children who Okay, he's lost the plot.

(23:17):
So he's pitting Ivy League people against just everyday people
who are working to try and get an education, to
try and enter the workplace, because that's the way the
game is set up here. That's the most important thing
is making sure that the wrong people don't get the benefit,
as opposed to just making sure everybody gets the fucking benefit. Well,

(23:39):
here's the thing. If we start helping people, people who
don't need help get helped, and that's fucked up. Also,
that's not true, like the aside from the fact that
there's like a you know, a low amount of black
and brown uh students at these places, but like they
have gotten a shot to get into Ivy League, Like,
I don't think that they should have to which are

(24:00):
as expensive, if not more. Um, I don't think that
they should be saddled with with debt just because they
went to an Ivy League school. But even when you
started look breaking it down right, guess who's disproportionately impacted
by student loan debt? Black and brown students? That's who.
Black student No, no, almost black students borrow federal student loans,

(24:27):
you know what I mean? And it's it's much higher
than the national average. The other things too, is like
having this student loan debt above you directly relates to
having a lower income. It it's a burden, It limits
you because you're so spread thin trying to fucking pay
off these loans for an education. That who is it?

(24:49):
Is it even? Like most people like, is it even
worth it anymore? Um? And yeah, so Joe, you gotta
fucking take a second, Joe, because you're you. You keep
throwing it people's faces that you forgot who fucking voted
for you, and what the funk you said to even
get people to even believe in this ship. I mean,
that's why I think many people who had seen his record,
We're like, well, let's not get too excited here about

(25:12):
Joe Biden Um, but this is what's happening. But I
think it's just a smack in the face, given given
what's happening in the country to then just be like
this thing is also could really help black and brown
Americans out for like, like I said, tangible upward mobility,
But I'd rather get like bogged down and like, well,
maybe this kid who went to pen is going to

(25:32):
get some money off and then he'll use it on
a fucking white claw beer pong table. I don't know
what the funk. It's like, it's it's it reminds me
of like the uh there was a point during the primary,
like Kamala Harris was talking about like there it's just like, well,
we will be forgiving student debt if this and then

(25:55):
you fulfill that and you haven't made a payment, and
the is like twenty different levels that you had to
like like boxes that you needed to check off. And
it's so ineffective as politics and as actual policy that
affects people's lives to just have twenty different things and

(26:16):
like hoops that you have to run through, like we
just need simple policies that but then people then that's
like way too much money being spent, That's what's so
we just can't get over that, and we avoid like
even logically gaming it out, like well what happens, right,
Because if your point, Joe Biden, is that, well, what
about like disadvantaged kids and getting into early childhood development.

(26:39):
Who do you think do you think the parents of
these disadvantaged kids might have student debt too? Yeah? So
I also want to say, aside from black and brown
students having to more likely having to borrow um when
they graduate, they also make less than their white counterparts
doing the same job for the same amount of time,

(27:01):
so it takes them twice as long to even pay
it off. So it's even more difficult once they do graduate, uh,
because they're not paid the same for the same amount
of work, right, I mean, you know, like black students
and thirty six percent of like Latino students default on
their student amounts, you know what I mean? Like these

(27:23):
that's who needs help, like people, all people to anyone
with this student that fucking fuck it. Get I don't
give a funk. I don't care if I had to
pay for smart college or whatever. But fuck, I'd rather
look at a world that's treating people humanly than be
like why I had to go through that ship And
if they went to a state school, we should feel
sorry for that, Miles, but not otherwise. I don't like

(27:47):
what is happening? What is that? What are you talking about?
And then his then he moves on to be like,
you know, the thing that I've been saying is community
college should be free. It's like Joe, that's not she
said her friends and family are and crushed by student debt.
And you're saying, uh, well, okay, how about this, Uh
hop in a time machine and go to a future

(28:08):
where the community colleges are free, and then you can
just have your associates degree and the like, I don't know,
and I get that you can you can get your
associates and then go to a four year and then
get your bachelors and things like that, but like what
these aren't real solutions. They're they're really not. They're just
these really disingenuous like pivots and lame talking points that

(28:28):
completely ignore like the real thing that we're asking for
is like, how are you going to help people? Like
right now, I'm not all right, and let me take
a step back and explain to you, uh that I
went to Uh, I used to ride the train, so uh,
come on, man, don't don't don't bring that bullshit in here.

(28:49):
Um get that weeksh it out of here. Anyway, help
me open this pdf. I also want to say to like,
I had a ton of I just paid off ten
thousands and medical debt, medical debt, so some of us
also have medical debt on top of student loan. Like
whenever I see people on Twitter like, well I saved
up and I paid off my student loan debt, and

(29:09):
I'm like, okay, but did you also have thousands of
medical debt too, because like some of us also have
other debt. Never had to go to a doctor in
fifteen years, but like you know what I mean, It's
like it's such a privileged thing. And I'm like, I
so here's the thing. Yes, I paid off my ten thousand.
If another person had a ten thousand dollar bill, I
wouldn't wish that on them just because I paid mine off.

(29:30):
I paid mine off because I sold a show. And
I was like, okay, I'm gonna take a chunk of
this money. But you shouldn't. That's that's never happens. That
that's like such a one person like that doesn't happen
to people that they just get it into you're out here,
you're out here selling a show to try and tackle
your medal. That's like that goes to my Bugatti fund well.

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And and then the gross thing was I had debt
collectors calling me the last like two years about my
medical debt and it was like, sir, I didn't go
to Vegas for the weekend. I was hospitalized, you know,
And it was like I had I had autoimmune issues
and I had heart issues, and I was like, like
an ambulance cost however much it costs, and it's just
like insane, but it was it was sick, and I

(30:12):
think they felt bad. Like, to be honest, I think
I don't think anyone actually wants to take a debt
collector like job. They are also there are also people
that are struggling. But it was just like how you're
calling me and acting like I'm a piece of ship
when I didn't go to like the suit, I didn't
pay for like super Bowl tickets, like I was in
the hospital. What's going on, Mrs Fernandez? Sorry, I just

(30:34):
have to stick to the script. Yeah, listen to me
a piece of shit. It's like, I think, at the
end of the day, we just have to keep reminding
ourselves that there are certain things that just need to
be rights and not things you have you have to
afford to get into the club of can you get
into the health club, can you get into the education club?
And I mean we talked about Democrats wanting to like

(30:57):
keep the status quo because that they are kind of
the party of the status quo at this point where
they're like trying to you know, they are the party
that is there to protect capitalism, not to solve people's problems.
And I think with college, like we we've talked before
about how college is basically a social factory for like

(31:21):
giving people the proper socialization to like enter the sort
of upper like middle class basically and like have the
proper like social connections essentially. Like that's uh when when
people look at it, that's the thing that people find
to be like the most important part of of college

(31:43):
is like the social connections that you make. And so
it makes sense to me that the Democrats would be
protective of just letting anybody into college because that is
like a barrier that's built in to kind of protect
the capitalism and the capitalists. Well that's how they like,

(32:03):
you know, that's how they pretend there it's progressive because
it's like on a continuum. If you compare them at
two different points in time, you're like, well, that was
forward movement, but it's like it's so glacial and incremental
that it doesn't. It's like they have found ways to
basically reinforce other money making industries. So when they go,
all right, funcket, we're pulling the plug on like making

(32:25):
buckoo bucks on community college. I hope you got I
hope you set your traps for other places. Then they
can allow for that to happen, because that's just how
it never It's never gonna be like your ass out
uh under a Democrat plan, because then they're going to
consult with your industry to make sure it's so like,
are you comfortable with this? Mhm? The Republican Civil War

(32:46):
is almost not even worth mentioning. That was a story
heading into the year in the mainstream media um post
the second impeachment. The only thing that is getting Republicans
in trouble is any buddy who voted to convict that's
like pete, they're getting censured by their uh home state parties. Uh.

(33:08):
And it's over, Like, I mean, we knew that it
was going to go back to the president and uh,
but it's still Trump's party. He's in a better and
better position. Uh. And you know, I feel like he
didn't really make sense as a president because he can't
actually do like he's not competent enough to do the
things he promises. But I feel like he's going to

(33:31):
be like as the dissident leader, like the critic of
the person in power who has like this huge ground
swell of support. I think he's going to be very dangerous.
And anybody who's counting that out or thinks that like
he's his career is over, is I think sorely mistaken. Um.

(33:55):
So that is where that is that he is interesting
when you look at it, though, too, right because within it,
sixty of Republicans think that they need a third party.
But then when you break that down, I think it
needs to be more conservative, right, A third thinks it

(34:15):
should be the same, and a quarter is like, I'm
I'm out of here, like y'all are, I'm not this racist?
So that's interesting that or like, right now there's only
twenty five. Only a fourth of the Republicans are like, well,
the other three fourths are like what's the problem. Yeah,
and others are like turn it up even more harder. Yeah,

(34:39):
And I I just don't think, like when when the
choices between saying we were wrong to ever support and
vote for him or getting behind the ground swell of populist,
racist energy that their party has that their back, Uh,
They're they're gonna do the thing they've done before, which

(35:01):
is go go with Trump. If it's like part of me,
it's just so like it's weird. Part of me is like,
where's that like old school dark arts Bush Cheney version
of the party that would just like like feel like
they would disappear people for fucking going against Like it's
like it's like like I'm like rooting for that old
bad guy to come fight this bad guy. Like are

(35:22):
they gonna fight now because you went after Liz Cheney?
But nothing? So yeah, Like you're saying, like the dust
is settled and that's where it's at now. It's going
to be about who's gonna put their money where and
how that ultimately bears out like polling and things like that,
because I mean when we say all these things that
like yes, the Republican Party, the energy and there's wild

(35:43):
toxic and going all over the place. But in terms
of like the sentiment of Americans at least a majority
are now trending more towards like that bad not again
no more. But how how those are gonna be reconciled?
I think it's gonna be really interesting. And we got
eighteen months basically, mm hmm let's figure that out. Um,

(36:06):
let's talk about this. Uh. Texas mayor, the mayor of Colorado, Texas,
population four thousand. Uh. He went on social media and
told people to stop complaining people whose power was out,
who are freezing to death, and who couldn't get clean water.
Uh he I mean it's almost worth just like reading

(36:27):
word for word. Yeah. Look his iron rant for you
from Tim Boyd quote, let me hurt some feelings while
I have a minute. Yeah, my god, you have a
minute during a put the fucking mike on. Uh, and

(36:47):
you're about to be like, what's humanity? So he says,
no one owes you or your family anything, nor is
it the local government's responsibility to support you. During trying time.
It literally is quite literally, um sink or swim. It's
your choice. The city and county, along with power providers

(37:07):
or any other service, owes you nothing. I'm sick and
tired of people looking for a damn hand out. If
you don't have electricity, you step up and come up
with a game plan to keep your family more and safe.
If you have no water, you deal without and think
outside of the box to survive and supply water to
your family. If you were sitting at home in the
cold because you have no power in your sitting there
waiting for somebody to come rescue you because you're lazy,

(37:31):
that's a direct result of your raising. Only the strong
will survive and the week will perish us. But folks,
everything is spelled wrong horribly. Yeah, it's a nightmare, folks.
God has given us the tools to support ourselves in
times like this. This is sadly a product of a

(37:51):
socialist government where they feed people to believe that the
few will work and others will become dependent for handouts.
Am I sorry that you've been dealing without electricity and water? Yes,
but I'll be damned if I'm going to provide for
anyone that is capable of doing it themselves. We have
a lost sight of those in need and those I
don't know. We have lost sight of those in need. Yeah,
that's right, um, and those that take advantage of the

(38:12):
system and mess them in one group. Bottom line, quit
crying and looking for a hand out, Get off your
ass and take care of your own family. Bottom he says,
bottom line again, bottom line. Don't be part of a problem,
be a part of the solution. H The way they
are so obsessed with that term hand out. They are
so obsessed. This is always in my comments to whenever

(38:35):
I talk about either student loan forgiveness or whatever. It's
just like so rained in them. And I want to say,
we literally pay taxes, so it is not it's literally
your money, like quite literally our money that we have
to every single yes, every I would love to not
pay taxes. And then you could be like Danny, you

(38:55):
never paid for anything, but no, we we literally do. Yeah,
And I'm sorry. I think part of the thing when
you're paying like these utility taxes too, and you're paying
for utility services, part of the gag the game the
relationship there is to be like I'm paying for the
fucking service. Where's my electricity? You have the right to
ask for that. Now. I understand that certain things out

(39:17):
of their control happens, but to say that it's not
the responsibility is such an absurd notion. But it's not
the responsibility of your power provider to provide you with power.
I think was like almost a direct quote and yeah
I sent yeah, right. So then people are like, what
the fund did this guy say? And he resigned. But

(39:41):
then he fucking came back to Facebook just to clear
ship up one time for your mind, real quick. Okay,
this is him, and he and he deleted both posts
like within minutes because he was like, I'm taking too
many l's being taken at the moment, he says, quote all,
I have set back and watched all this escalating and
have tried to keep my mouth shut. I won't deny
for one minute what I said in my post this morning.

(40:02):
Believe me when I say that many of the things
I said were taken out of context, and some of
which were said without putting much thought into it. I
would never want to hurt the elderly or anyone this
or or anyone that is in true need of help
to be left to fend for themselves. I was only
making the statement that those folks that are too lazy
to get up and fend for themselves but are capable,
should not be dealt a hand out. He goes on,

(40:24):
basically saying, like, you misunderstand. It's the same point. You're
just using more words to say the same thing, which is,
if you can't look, if you can't deal with it,
then die, motherfucker. That's what I'm saying. Like, it's weird
because I kind of feel bad for him in the
sense that he's merely reflecting back everything that we have
we see, Yeah, which is he's been, whether it's not

(40:50):
said out loud or whatever. This is what the experience
is for American people, which is work or die, be
useful or die. If you can't afford to live, then
fucking die. You want help, motherfucker, then move somewhere else. Oh,
you were brought here against your willed centuries ago. Sorry, Uh,
that's really the tone of this. And yeah, like it's
funny that a lot of times were like how can

(41:12):
people think like this? But we really need to have
like a more concerted effort to be like why what
is why do we have? What? Is what's with our
asshole problem here? You know what I mean? The fucking
that that it's just turned into this like scab of
like it's just hardened to the point where this guy
would I basically say, like I don't give a funk
if your grandma freezes to death. But that's not who

(41:35):
he's picturing, right, Like, he's not picturing your grandma. He's
picturing like some non white people every day Americans or whatever. Yeah. Um,
And but the idea that you are so like to
to tell what I was going to say, some of
my high school friends that are dealing with this right now.
One of my friends who's still in Frisco had to

(41:56):
go and stand in line for four hours trying to
get firewood. And he has a baby. He has a
wife and a baby. They have had no power. It
is below freezing, as you've seen some of the pictures
on Twitter. Uh, people will have and they're like people
are like, don't forget to like have your pipes leak,
like have them drip or whatever. And they're like, we've
been doing that for days and they like still busted

(42:18):
and so um they're pipes burst. They have no electricity
and and to keep warm. Like literally they had to
go and stand in line to get firewood and it
was it just was a line of cars for hours.
And he said he spent four hours trying to get
firewood so that his baby wouldn't freeze, and he they
turned him away. And so that's what people are dealing with,

(42:42):
and the idea that it's like, well, you you need
to go out and you know, slaughter a cow to
feed your like it's just so insane. We're also like
not you know, the way that our society and system
has been set up now, it's like you can't just
go out and like chop down someone else's tree or
just like takes someone else's sheep and like to you

(43:02):
know what I mean, when you're living in like a
suburban neighborhood. Um, So those when he says that like
those are he's probably thinking of people like my friend
who who did go out, you know who is whatever?
Like it's also super ablest, I would say, um, And
I hate the term lazy because I actually don't think
that any like most Americans are lazy. I think that

(43:25):
we live in such a scary society where you're bombarded
with you have student loan debt, and you're a lot
of people deal with massive amounts of depression living in
this country. So I think it's actually just the the
effects of depression from being in this this this hellhole
that is also just earth, just living on Earth. So

(43:46):
I don't actually think yeah, I actually think that you
you can't be lazy and live in this country, because
you would you would just die. Yeah. Yeah, So everybody
is fighting at all times to survive. I mean, you
you it's so expensive to even just exist. Do you
have to be extremely privileged to be lazy. Yes, that's

(44:07):
the thing. You have to have a ton of money
actually to be lazy. Um and the students probably sees
lazy people around him because he's a privileged politician, and
so he assumes that that's I mean, he assumes that
every everybody's problems are their own fault, because that's what

(44:28):
Fox News has been telling him. And the bottom line is,
you can never present a problem to a Republican and
they say it's a problem. You're right. They go, oh, wow,
that was right, that's a problem we need to fix that.
Never it's it's you can you can take that ship
to the bank, unless it's like, yeah, immigrants are a problem.
But like if you're saying, what the funk just happened

(44:49):
with that grid? Do we want to talk about this
deregulated independent grid that we have and all this other
ship and the fact that the markets with electricity are
set up that doesn't even in sentivized maintenance or the
updating of the grid because all about like cheap power
as quickly as possible, all this No, it's not gonna
be that. It's gonna be like we actually need to

(45:09):
look at the body that was in charge of the utilities.
Oh man, these we need to look into snow terrorism.
I think it's like what it's a it's uh, it's
the same here. We've brought up the deregulated Texas energy
market before because the story of Enron is like so
cartoonishly just like what an amazing example of broken American

(45:31):
uh economy and just everything ethics. But uh yeah, just
one kind of acute way that this uh problem illustrates
the way American operate America operates. We had a a
TDZ fan from San Antonio reach out and say their

(45:52):
power has been out. The power company at first said
it was gonna be fifteen minutes on for five minutes
off just to conserve power. Said it's been offered days
uh and pointed out my friends and wealthy neighborhoods have
not lost power. Uh, this is true, and at least
three separate neighborhoods across the city. I've seen the Downtown
Skyline just blazing its lights into the sky for the

(46:13):
entire time. Um. And that's actually that supports what the
New York Times is reporting, which is that the in
any disaster, but including this one, when ship hits the fan,
the poorer communities and communities that are more populated with
people of color are the ones that lose power first

(46:36):
and get it last. So the people who are probably
have the least camping supplies, uh like, have the least
access to things that can save their lives are the
ones who are treated the worst by the system, by
this deregulated energy industry. Yeah, that's that's where we'reheaded, baby.

(46:57):
You know, like when ship all this ship gets privatized.
This is the future you have to look forward to
because there are no regulations on what you need to
be with. The bare minimum is they're gonna look at
you and be like, okay, Uh, some people are saying, like,
because trying to generate the electricity was gonna become so costly.
They're like, you may want to cancel your service with
us because your electrical bill could be wild because we're

(47:18):
gonna dump the cost onto the consumer. Cool cool, cool, cool.
Like people are getting notices to be like, you may
want to you may want to rethink that just as
a courtesy. Yeah, that's our courtesy is you may get
body slammed on your next bill if you say. Fox
News has been saying that it's because uh windmills are frozen,
but you know, according to UH, an energy fellow in

(47:42):
the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, the
failure is the result of the state's deregulated power system. UM.
Most of the UH, it's actually like when you look
at on balance the wind power for the day that
everybody was saying the wind turbines were frozen, the wind

(48:07):
power on balance overshot the what the expectations were for
that day. There were a couple examples of windmills freezing,
but for the most part, UH, they provided more energy
than UH the energy companies were expecting. And the thing
that ship the bed was natural gas. But this is

(48:28):
part of a long term campaigned by Fox and Friends.
You know, they were in the past couple of days.
And and and what would America look Is this what America
would look like under the Green New Deal? Uh? Tucker
Carlson claimed that it was all due to Texas is
reckless reliance on windmills. Um the energy mixes eighty or
nine fossil fuels in Texas. Yes, that part out loud,

(48:52):
Tucker Carlson say, And that and I think the point
you're talking about is the coastal windmills in Texas, we're
the ones bring more energy into the state because they
weren't as affected and we're and created a lot more
than when the gas plants went down. So in the
end it actually did help the state. The wind, the wind,
the wind turbines. It's like, I mean, this is not

(49:13):
going to be news to anybody, but just like reading
this story just for some reason, was just every once
in a while, I get just like smacked over the
head and I'm just like, holy sh it, Like we
are in a dystopian society, where like when you think
about the fact that most people in Texas is like

(49:34):
primary news source is going to be Fox News, Uh,
like and like just thinking about how transparently illegal it
should be for them to report the things that we
just described. I don't mean Greg Abbott, the governor's out
here blaming other people. It's like people are dying in
the state because of the inaction and like the callous

(49:55):
attitudes towards how to solve anything. Of being like because
again you you present a Republican with a problem and
it's not, Oh my god, I'm the governor. Texans are
dying under my watch. This is unacceptable. It goes, oh,
we actually need to talk to a COT, which is
like the Commission on on on Energy and stuff in

(50:15):
the state. It's like, we need to we need to
talk about that. I think that's the issue here. It's
never again he could have been we have to do something,
something needs to be done. I'm the governor and this
is a problem. And that was you know, can't admit
any kind of failure mistakes, So it just ends up
perpetuating itself. They're a big piece of content that was
being circulated by conservatives was a photograph of a helicopter

(50:40):
d I sing a wind turbine look at this ship,
Except that photo was from a test in Sweden. Uh Sweden,
uh and fuel to even clean the windmill. So come on,
y'all need to scare curious thing aside from the fact

(51:01):
that we need an upgraded grid system and this has
been a necessary thing for so long, especially in Texas,
is that this will continue to happen. And that's I
think what scares me the most is that we will
continue to have weather crisis from here on out period.
It's something that we have been having. Um that Texas
is aware aside from like uh, Galveston seeing like you know,

(51:24):
devastation and think like it's going to our extreme weather
is going to continue and whether whether they want to
deny it or not, it will hit them and happen
to them. And so that's that I find. Yeah, but
I mean, how much longer can you deny it for?
And it's just like instead they spent the past four
years focusing on like who's allowed to go into what

(51:44):
bathroom and who's allowed to marry who, as opposed to like, hey,
the next the next decade is going to be a
complete change for us, and we're not prepared for it.
And you're going to continue to see this stuff happening. Um,
I was. I was in Texas when Hurricane Katrina hit
and we had all new students coming to us from

(52:05):
New Orleans, like a ton of my coming from UM
New Orleans to Texas. So a ton of my uh
students they when I was in high school had to
come because they were not being or having help there.
And that's gonna that's also gonna happen in Texas, like
we're going to continue to have and here in California,
all of us are going to get hit with with

(52:27):
weather crisises and it's it's frustrating that after seeing this, uh,
they will probably still not do enough for the next
time when it happens. And they probably also think like,
oh God did this, God is God is giving us
some snow, you know or whatever. It's just like they
just don't believe they can deny it, you know, but

(52:49):
it's going to continue to happen. And that's what I
think is frustrating that they need to get a lot
of those UM officials out of there and someone who's
going to accept that this is the new way of
life ife, this is our just like we're gonna have
to accept wildfires here being a regular, you know, massive
thing that keeps happening to us and embracing the fact
that the US is a failed state. Okay, you want

(53:13):
to spike the football in these other countries talking about
the best you have people in the state that it
generates the most energy, not being able to access energy,
and people like accidentally burning their houses down because they're
trying to figure out other ways to generate heat and

(53:34):
things like that, and we're still gonna feel good about
ourselves as a country. Every the leadership in the state
should be ashamed that that happened. And then the fact.
But and I think that's where you hope at a
certain point. I don't know what, because the explanations out
of the right only get more absurd, and I don't
think they're ever going to go the other way. I mean,
we watched a full on mob take to rush the

(53:58):
capital and people who were almost got hurt, Like no,
that's all good, it's all good, it's all good. So
I can't imagine even if a fucking avalanche blew down,
you know, Greg Abbott's home, he'd still be like, oh,
it's Antifa or so just like it'll never because that's
just sort of like it's it's like a mentality that's
become a party more than anything. It's like this way
of just maneuvering through the world. It's not really about

(54:21):
any There's there's no feeling. There's like nothing philosophical or
ideological about it. Just like a way of preserving your ego. Yeah. Um,
the Rick Perry uh came out and said Texans should
be willing to go without power for a couple of
days to honor the deregulation gods. Uh. Basically, Uh, deregulation

(54:42):
is just basically like every man for himself and but
applied to a market economy, which uh, as Enron illustrates,
does not work in good times, and as this and
every disaster and the pandemic illustrates, is really fucked when
it comes to uh, you know, not good times. And

(55:03):
just to put the Fox News thing in some context,
they've been pushing anti wind power conspiracies for years now.
In twenty nineteen, Tucker Carlson claimed that wind power wouldn't
be able to heat homes in the winter, which ignored
the fact that Alaska has incredibly successful wind farm energy. Eighteen,

(55:24):
he cited the widespread noise pollution from wind turbines, which
is false, alleged they provide precious little energy false, and
added that turbines kill a lot of birds, and this
has been a thing that they really focus on a lot.
And as our writer Jam points out, Tugger Carlson is
the heir to the Swanson Frozen Food company. Uh So

(55:46):
he who make all the money off of, like, you know,
murdering chickens and turkeys. So the fact that that's something
he acts like he's worried about. In eleven, all the
way back then, Greg Gutfeld called wind power the Ted
Bundy of bird ollers, which gross also misleading because wind

(56:06):
turbines do kill birds, but less than building glass and vehicles,
and way less than cats. Cats kill two point four
billion birds each year. Wow, And we're not talking about that.
We're not talking about Randy Johnson the bank. I saw him.
I saw him straight mark a bird with a ball

(56:26):
once and and I just don't want to acknowledge it.
Don't want to. Two thousand nine study found that fossil
field power stations are responsible for nearly fifteen times more
bird deaths than wind farms. And that is their best.
The best they can do is point to birds being
killed by fox someone said, also, Texas was quote totally

(56:47):
reliant on windmills. Also, now again that energy mix is
generated from fossil fields. Just you can and you can
look that up. But you know what, we're not interested
in that, because I just said that, because I'm not
interested in fact. I'm just interested in going full steam
ahead and my you know, protecting my my sense of self.

(57:07):
All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
right back to wrap things up, and we're back. Uh.
And Rush Limbaugh died yesterday. Um, I think he's best

(57:30):
remembered in his own words, with his own content. Let's
just list off a couple of the things. Uh from
the New York Times, oh bit not like from you know,
it's just a person on Twitter, And from the New
York Times. O bit uh. In the limbo lexicon, advocates
for the homeless were compassion fascists, women who favored abortion

(57:52):
were femin Nazis. Environmentalists were tree hugging wackos. He had
delivered AIDS updates with a Dion Warwick song I'll Never
Love This Way Again, ridiculed Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease symptoms,
and called global warming a hoax. On the AIDS update thing. Uh,
there's a somebody pointed out, like that's that doesn't give

(58:15):
you the full Uh. He used to read the names
of people who died and have celebratory moments whenever another
AIDS victim died, which he called the AIDS updates. Yeah,
and then he lied about a bunch of shit constantly. Yeah. Yeah,
because Dion Warwick was like one of the first celebrities

(58:36):
to really come out in support of like the fighting
against the AIDS epidemic. So that's why. So he was
and for the people, there's there's also this like even
from like the New York Times, there's like this big
grudging but you gotta hand it to the guy. And like,

(58:56):
I think we're learning from all the hacks who like
got canceled and immediately gone to become like right wing
celebrities after years of being like middling mainstream media personalities
or you know, failed screenwriters and terrible novelists. And Ben
Shapiro's case that it's not as hard to get an
audience when you're telling white supremacists and misogynists the lies

(59:21):
they already want to believe, Like that's just because you
have a huge audience doesn't mean you are talented. That
just means that you tapped into a vein in the
country that is fucking evil and disgusting. All they're all
they're doing is all they're just saying is saying problematic

(59:41):
ship but real witty. And with theism, that's the difference.
It's different than when someone's yelling hate speech at someone.
It's that like you've now turned it into a segment
where you're playing music and you're it's not just it's
you're going like there's a spectacle to this sort of content.
And I think that's why a lot of failed can
medians end up doing so well. It's because it's like, yeah,

(01:00:02):
I'm just gonna do like mean jokes basically, but as
an ideology and just talk like that all the time
and say everyone's disgusted, staying freaks or what the fuck,
and people are gonna just be like, hey man, he
said it better than I could have. That's funny. He
made up his own racial slur. I'm going to use
that now. I also think it's hilarious that same with

(01:00:22):
the people that did the um the attack on Congress
is that they consider themselves outcasts when they are like
the actual most privileged people in the world. Like that
to me is just so, I don't know, someone should
do a documentary. I'm I'm I'm fascinated and horrified by
the psychology behind like you said, like failed comedians who

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then they have nowhere to go, so they become they
joined the alt right, which is like several people that
have been in our industry that I've known who have
like gotten canceled that we've watched get canceled and go
over there, But like so many of them carry this
like out like I'm I'm the one that's harmed and
I and it's like they're literally some of the most

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privileged people in this country, you know. And it's just
so I also wonder if they actually believe what they're saying,
Like if they were on our side, they got rejected
or canceled, and now they go over there, Like do
they actually believe the stuff that they're saying or are
they aware that they're just cashing in? Like I don't know,

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I mean, I think a lot of it is like
this weird thing that whiteness specifically can do to American people,
which is, on one hand, tell you you're the best,
your number one, and you should have everything. But then
if you're a working class white person, your lived experience
is not is nothing like that. So in a way,
that begins a feeling of like I should have what

(01:01:51):
the fuck like even though you are benefiting massively. Look,
you got to beat a police officer with a hockey stick, yes,
but there's still this feeling. It's like they also know
that though the the treatment of people could be better,
whether they wanted or not. I think there is this
feeling like it could be better, but I don't know

(01:02:12):
how to articulate that. So I'm really just gonna stay
angry and be on this other, you know, regressive programming,
which is point of finger and yell at everybody except
myself or the country that is responsible for this. I
watched Judas on the Black Mass Sigh over the weekend,
and one of the things that jumped out to me
is that Fred Hampton, before he was assassinated by the FBI,

(01:02:35):
was uniting like poor white people and uh, you know,
with gangs and just all like uniting across underprivileged classes. Uh.
And that's the thing that I feel like is underrepresented about.
When Martin Luther King Jr. Was assassinated. Is he was

(01:02:56):
in Memphis on a anti poverty UH movement, and he
was in the midst of an anti poverty like supporting unions,
supporting people trying to make it uh a class movement
as opposed to specifically racial and that seems to be
the thing that the uniting of those factions really seems

(01:03:21):
to scare the ship out of the ruling class. Mm hmm.
And finally the Cruella trailer dropped. We we talked about
how the poster looked like ship yesterday on trending, But um,
the trailer looks kind of fun, very very dark, yeah,

(01:03:45):
very jokery. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but it looks fun.
I mean the like the visual aesthetic of it. I'm like, oh,
this looks this looks pretty cool. Yeah, but I don't know,
I didn't realize it's funny when I'm like, it's a
character who I didn't never really thought about what a
backstory could look like, and so my the trailer was

(01:04:05):
like showing me what that wasn't like, oh, ships into
some ship huh okay, I see her. I feel like
that's probably also from Maleficent because they had a couple
of you know that was like one of their first
ones where they were like, let's look at the origin
story of some of these, uh, some of these villains.

(01:04:26):
Chase Mitchell, who's a comedy writer, tweeted this morning. He said,
I've always wanted to see a sympathetic origin story for
a character whose main ambition in life is to kill
a very large, specific number of small dogs. I do
think that it's funny that we're supposed to, like, you know,
we're supposed to be sympathetic for her. Same with Maleficent.
When you watch it's like why she became, why she

(01:04:47):
broke bad, like what happened to her that made her
a villain? And so I do think it's funny that
we're gonna be like, oh, she's just misunderstood and also
skins alive animals like for a chance. I don't know,
this is kind of hard. Yeah, that's I mean, that's
been one of the main rules of movies is that

(01:05:08):
you can't kill dogs generally, and if you do, it
has to be like a super big like building up
to that point, like that is an emotionally crushing thing
from movie audience, and it's like I am legend. Shit, yeah,
I am legend. Thing, like it has to be the
main thing where you're just like this trailer like does
show us dalmatians, but they're mean. They're the meanest Dalmatians

(01:05:31):
I've ever seen. Like they just make them like vicious.
Like when she walks into a room that so mad
at her, it's like so dogs read energy, right, do
they go edgy with it? And they actually show here
just like doing a wild animal abuse you right, this
was in a kids film Dollars for this on Disney

(01:05:51):
clos It would make more sense if she was like
um Selena Cutt like a catwoman, Like that would make
more sense, like Michel Fifers like cat, Like if she
were surrect, which I don't think she is or that
I could tell, but like that would make more sense
to me if she were like, oh my precious, or
if a dog killed her cat when she was growing
up and so now she has like a vendetta against dogs.

(01:06:14):
Like a lot of sense to me if she's kid.
In the end, we're still being like, that'll make sense
for her to one dalmatian right to the point where
like I mean, oh, look at it, silo, this as
its own thing and just be like you don't go
off Cruella. Mm hmm um. I also don't like how

(01:06:36):
much can it be a kids movie because like kids
don't kids aren't into anti heroes. Like when I when
I show my kids kids breaking Bad, They're like, what
why is that? Guys? Such a jerk? Deb Um. I
can't think of anything so my kids breaking Bad? They
didn't like that scene, that rat patrol scene where they
got all the snitches. Yeah. Yeah, Actually can't think of

(01:07:00):
any villain movies that I've enjoyed as a kid. That's
like when you become I felt like that was me
thinking I was becoming an adult, was watched like that.
I'm like, yo, that fucked up person. Actually I like
that character right because I have my parents just got
divorced and now I can see the spectrum of pain

(01:07:21):
in life. Like I don't know, yeah, um be interesting.
But anyways, Danny as always such a pleasure having you
on the daily's like, where can people find you and
follow you? I'm at Miss Danny Fernandez M S D
A n I F E r n A N D
easy on Twitter, on Twitter and Instagram, and also I'm

(01:07:44):
on Clubhouse, which some people are using. But that's just
at Danny Fernandez, what do you do on there? It's
like I did a panel for Gloria Calder and Kellett,
who's a show winner for One Day at a Time,
asked me to be on a panel about breaking into Hollywood,
and so it's kind of it's an audio forum. So
it's uh like a big room that a hundreds of

(01:08:07):
people can be in, but like there's selected speakers and
you can raise your hand kind of like in zoom
or blue jeans if you guys have had to use
that during this time. But I personally it gives me
a little bit of anxiety, uh doing it because I
can't see anyone. So so it's like doing like a
big conference call it. Yes, that's literally actually that's exactly it.

(01:08:29):
And sometimes people talk over each other and but there
are some really good people were talking about the stock market,
like they had people on there that were breaking it down.
There's also casting directors that talk about like how to
do a good audition, like so you can learn things
and a lot of these or if you're like Keith Standfield,

(01:08:50):
there's a moaning room. It was just men moaning um
and he popped in there and was moaning and you
can't see anyone, right, So he Keith like popped into
the moaning room and was just like moaning in there,
so you will not find me in the moaning rooms. Um. Also,
when I was going to say, when we were talking

(01:09:11):
about um like reboots and casting and stuff up top,
I had wanted him for Willy Wonka. I still want
if they're going to reboot it, because they're thinking of
Tom Holland or Timothy shallow May, and I'm like, there
are more people in this industry, I swear to God,
but I think Lakeith would be fun and wild. Janelle

(01:09:33):
Money is another one obviously, and she also dressed up
like him. So um, either of those I think are
more interesting and I could do a lot more with
the discovering different aspects of Also, he's fictional, like, this
is what I say about all these characters whenever people
are like, but he's white. He's also not real. He's literally,

(01:09:55):
quite literally not real. Um. That's how I feel about
all of the d C and Marvel characters as well.
They were made up, and they were also made up
typically in the fifties and sixties when black and brown
people weren't allowed to be on a lot of these comics,
so we only had a very small select few, um
which were great. But also it's really okay, uh yeah,

(01:10:18):
look we'll let you wrap and stuff, you know what,
continue to appropriate the culture left and right. But yeah
we can. I think we can switch out a couple
of the physical bodies for these made up characters, like
it'll be, it'll literally be. It's one thing if you're
doing a hologram of your father or a memorial service

(01:10:39):
and it's like, well, that's not my dad was it
was not Taiwanese. But yeah, that's yeah, maybe there's not
creative license for a hologram memorial. But if we're talking
about fictitious people. People said this about Game of Thrones,
like not to go on my tangent, but really people
would say like, well, it's just there's not a lot
of black and brown people be because it's you know,

(01:11:01):
historically they weren't uh they historically, I'm sorry, weren't around
during the dragon time. When was the dragon time? I
missed the dragon time. They're like, yeah, but during that time,
And I'm like, when when was that time? Tell me
in history? Okay, I will once may I answer your
question with another and with a question which is Danny,
do you speak Western Rosie? Okay, that's I'm just I

(01:11:22):
want to start there so I know where we're starting
this debate from. Anyway, That is my anytime someone says that,
I'm like, it's a television show. It is Listen to yourself.
It's a fake. This person this woman had dragons coming
out of her, Like, this is not real. Anyways, you
can have black and brown people. A black woman s

(01:11:46):
um speaking of the Keith Stanfield he needs to be
uh nominated for Judice in the blacks side? Did y'all
know that? Uh? And Daniel Cluea too, But did you
guys know that the Academy Award cut off is like
like late February this year, Like, yeah, it does make sense,
but I didn't, like nobody's really talking about you could

(01:12:07):
like you could game the awards this year because a
few things, like a few things came out that suddenly
you're like, yeah, I don't know, I guess that's the best,
but like, I feel like I don't have an opinion
on anything this year. Yeah, um, Miles, where can people
find you? What's the tweet you've been enjoying? Oh shit,
you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
of Gray and also the other podcast for twenty Day Fiance.

(01:12:31):
Let's see a tweet that I like. This is from
Brodie Reid and a sentiment A lot of comedians in
the l A Area have have talked about and this
kind of inside baseball. But I will just say this
tweet he says, quote, spent all morning trying to think
of creative things to say about Rush and couldn't think
of anything mean enough. Probably not going to get the

(01:12:52):
Jon Stewart thing. Not gonna lie. Shout out to everybody
submitting for that Stewart yea churn and um, sorry people
submitting though that that show might be dope. There's uh
And just one more because it's sort of piggybacks on
that from Robert Evans at I right, okay, why speak

(01:13:13):
ill of the dead when you can sing it's hilarious. Yeah,
there are so many good, good Rush tweets. Um tweet
I was enjoying. D C. Pearson tweeted his Twitter the
only hobby whose practitioners regularly lament everything about it. I'm
just imagining a bunch of bullers sitting around the alley

(01:13:33):
going funk this place, this is hell. Um can find
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(01:13:54):
is recommending that we are no longer playing at the
end of the show. I think a lot of people
are like, wait, you guys forgot to put the song
and we're not doing that anymore now we didn't do
that's just go out there listen to the whole thing.
Yeah you know what, Yeah, it'll take the tracking. You
go do the work herself. But this track is oh

(01:14:16):
an edit of a Massego track called Navajo, which is
a dope. If you haven't seen the Color Show version
of it on YouTube, check that out. But it's a
remix by e Kanie e k A n y uh.
It's Navajo but the Missego flip. So check this out
on SoundCloud and it's oh man, it's great, it's wonderful.
It's just got like because if you don't know Misseego

(01:14:38):
amazing and plays Sacks does a dope looping, great singer,
and then just when you add a little bit of
a remix on, it just takes things to a whole
other place. So yeah, yeah, you can go listen to
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