September 16, 2020 • 61 mins
In episode 716, Miles and guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by comedian Ester Steinberg to discuss JK Rowling's transphobic new book, an ICE whistleblower alleging hysterectomies on immigrant women in detention, Louisville settling with Breonna Taylor's family, Carole Baskin on Dancing With The Stars, Chris Evan's dick pic, and more!
FOOTNOTES:
- J.K. Rowling Proves Her Commitment to Transphobia in Her New Novel
- J.K. Rowling's Pseudonym Has A Disturbing Anti-LGBTQ Connection
- JK Rowling tells story of alter ego Robert Galbraith
- “WE ARE ALL IN OUR PRIVATE TRAPS”: TRANSPHOBIA IN HITCHCOCK’S PSYCHO
- Re: Lack of Medical Care, Unsafe Work Practices, and Absence of Adequate Protection Against COVID-19 for Detained Immigrants and Employees Alike at the Irwin County Detention Center
- ICE whistleblower: Nurse alleges 'hysterectomies on immigrant women in US'
- Louisville Will Pay Millions To Mother Of Breonna Taylor
- Carole Baskin’s Missing Husband’s Family Airs Commercial During Her ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Debut
- Chris Evans Is Using His Dick (Pic) For Good
- Black Rabbit by Prince Fatty, Shniece Mcmenamin
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh Internet, you know what time it is. It's time
for the Substitute Teacher from Heaven exactly because I'm so
nice with it. It is season one, episode three of
the Daily's Like guys production of iHeart Radio. It's the
podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. Subconsciousness. Well,
whether it's deeper than that, I don't know. The layers
(00:21):
of consciousness. We will go into the fifth dream level
of inception. I don't give a quck. Well, we're there
and we're here to say off the rip, Buck, the
Coke Brothers as in you know, Coke Industry, Bove, Fox News,
Buck Fonding on cakes it's too much. It's hard to
eat with all that ship on there also Buck Rush
Limbob Ben Shapiro, Tucker Cross and JK. Round will get
to her later on. Uh yeah, oh you're you still,
(00:44):
oh UK per fonding. I'm still kind of tempted to
Cape for Fondent, but maybe that's just like my inner
have watched by the Cape of Fondent, like you guys
talking about the cake bus. Anyway, It's Wednesday, September sixty twenty.
My name is Miles Gray, a k a oh God, Miles, great,
(01:07):
it's your birthday. We're gonna record podcast like it's your birthday.
Watch ninety Dave, like is your birthday? And you know,
we don't give up is if it's your birthday because
technically today is not my birthday. Well technically today is
the day we record this, but the day that you
will listen to this is not my birthday. But I'm
in the mood, so that's the spiritual feeling birthday at
the time, you know what I mean, the biggest mistake
(01:28):
you ever made was telling everybody that you're you have
the same birthday as Prince Harry because it always pops
up in trending topics and you're like, ship Miles and
tell me it was his birthday again. But I'm always
gonna know. I'm not a big birthday person, you know,
I don't really have I don't do parties. Last time,
what I used to do is just go to um,
what's the spot text on suns? You know, right there
(01:50):
is just a little text lounge drink. That's the most
I'll do for birthday. That's about it. Like freaky ask
music whatever they're playing there. Yeah, which when when it
becomes a gentrified apartment building. Who knows what total be
left that place we're gonna protect protect. Yeah serious, are you?
Are you going to eat a snack on your birthday? Ye?
(02:11):
Have a snack for sure. I'm gonna have like a
probably a cheesy croissant or something something rich, you know,
just to feel feel old, something for you, something you
got to and yes, without further ado, I mean, look,
we just started talking, but there was I gotta introduce
this other voice. It's not just a disembodied voice we're hearing.
It's not a ghost visiting me and my dreams. It
is none other than my guest co host today, the
(02:33):
one and only Jamie Loft. This I here's here's an
a k I got right here goes uh goodbuz amboy
Queen of Corona seeing me a sonny down by the
ice rink. I kind of like that one that's from
the underscore that I like it. Also, my ak shout
(02:55):
out to you know, Christie Almagucci Maine, the one and
only shout out to you the best imposers. We've got
a fantastic guest today. Somebody who is we've we've we've
been like, when when is she coming? When are we
gonna when do I get to talk to us? When
do we get to get into the mind of this person?
It is none I said none under when not really
mean none other than though wonderfully, brilliantly talented, hilarious comedian herself.
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Esther Steinberg, Thank you welcome, very sweet welcoming. Oh It's
at least we can do, you know, just to welcome
you with open arms to this little pot of ours.
The daily like happy birthday, Oh, come on now, thank you,
though the years keep adding un just let it, just
(03:43):
let it wash over you to feel joy about that.
I'm like, when it's pandemic, birthdays are right, and I'm like,
I'm like, I just want to look at a blue
scott Okay, well maybe I'll You know, every day you
gotta just kind of lower your expectation. Every day you
just kinda you have to lower your expectations a little
bit too, so it feels realistic. So like I'll be like,
I would like a less gray morning tomorrow, and then
(04:05):
that will feel good because their broady is still pretty
wild out here. How are things on your side of
the continent, Esther, Oh, Brooklyn is amazing. It's the one
time in my life that I'm like, New York's got
better weather than Los Angeles. I know. DJ Daniel was
in New York last week and he was just gloating.
He's like, honestly, the weather is like perfect, Yeah, it's
(04:28):
three more days. But in Brooklyn it's spectacular because, um,
there's no tourists, so like there's not a lot to do,
Like I can't go to a Broadway show. Um, you know,
like I was doing every night. But when you live
in New York, it's like Broadway show after Broadway show.
I mean you're right that yeah, and Grace Papaya, right
(04:49):
and Broadway Show. Hey, shut the funk up. That must
be bad without the tourists because we're the people who
will buy the spread Love is the Brooklyn Waite you know, souvenirs.
I am buying them still, um, spread Love, it's the
Brooklyn Waite t shirts. But it's uh, it's really nice
(05:14):
without them. I'm not sorry to interrupt you. What's the temperature?
What's the ambient air temperature? Just so I can get
a pie, Like, I don't know what ambient just the
air and I'm sorry, that's what temperature it is. So
it's sixty six degrees mostly sunny. Wow, and you and
out out your window there is blue. Oh my god,
(05:35):
it's green out there. It's just like it's sunny and cute.
But like, honestly, there's like a slight chill in the air,
which in l A you get like that little chill
and you're like, oh, the little chill. And in New
York the little chill is just like knock, knock, knock,
and then on the other side of the door is
like this like winter monster. Your life nice right now.
(06:00):
I'm just like having other my families in Massachusetts. I've
just been having them described the weather to me. Yeah,
that's I mean, look, that's how like we've really simplified things.
Before I'd be like, man, I wish I'd had this
or that or that. I'm like, tell me about the
sky where you are, And I'm like, and that is
a birthday gift esther. We're gonna get to know you
even better. But before we do that, we're gonna take
(06:21):
people down the down the Primrose Path to talk about
what we're gonna be talking today. J k Rowling. She's, uh,
you know, we talked about in the Trending episode yesterday
but she is continuing her streak with her transphobic work. UH,
and it just there's with our writer JM has illiminated
a few things about her work that I didn't I
(06:42):
didn't realize that that. We'll get into that. Um and
even more horrific news. There's an Ice there's a complaint
coming out of ICE detention centers that shows we are
quite possibly in the darkest further confirmation of the darkest
timeline of American history. Uh. Pelosi is having trouble h
to the left and the right of her trying to
figure out how to do, you know, create a relief
(07:04):
package for people. Brianna Taylor's mother settled with the city
of Louisville. We'll talk about what that looks like. Carol
Baskin was on Dancing with the Stars, just making a
out of herself come up. But yeah, we got that in.
Maybe we'll even get to Chris Evans dick Picks at
some point, because that's just yeah about a picture of
(07:26):
Robert Pattinson he had on his photo role. I have
questions about that. I have more everyone focused on the
Dick Pick. I had the question. I had questions about
the screenshots around the dick pick. Wow, Okay, well this
is this is this is great. Well we're going to
get into all of that, but first esther, what's something
from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
(07:50):
My search history is sad. We have diastes RECTI workout,
which is when the abs separate when you're pregnant. You
have to work out in a very specific way to
try to get the gap. So I've been obsessed with
I'm like neurotically worried about this thing that I might
not even have. That's what all I search, and then
(08:10):
teething rash, what's teeth? What diet done? So I had
a kid three and a half months ago. We've met
over zoom. A beautiful child. Shout out to you. No,
Moses is cute. My body has been mangled like a
used car. And one of the things that happens to
(08:35):
the mangled body that is a child bearing woman is
that the abdomens separate to make room for the baby.
And then you have the baby and everyone's like, oh baby,
No one gives a funk about your like damaged um.
So you have to Everyone's like get your snap back,
(08:57):
and I've like refused to snap back. Oh, I will
snap back when I feel like snapping back, which thank you. Yeah.
And then and then like I finally was like, there's
something wrong with me. And so now I'm like going
down the rabbit hole of trying to like google things
that are like wrong with women, and it's who have
babies like diastus reckedy is when your abs are still separated.
(09:21):
And then and I'm also googling like physical therapy and
pelvic floor and all this stuff, half because I'm concerned
and half because I'm like, oh, there's something wrong with me,
and that's why I can't work out. This is this
is like I can't work out. The snake is truly eating.
(09:41):
It's yeah, I'm so sick and I can't work out,
but I need to lay down. But I keep googling
until I find like us to just lay down and
be as you can. Like some you get a physical
human being knocks on your door from Google and it's like, hey, um,
this doesn't happen a lot, but we'd love you just
(10:02):
just you have a seat here. I brought I brought
a lavender herb mask. You can just lay on your
eyes to chill out. From Google. We kind of care sometimes, Um,
what is something that you think is overrated? Uh, pumpkin
spice latte? M hm, go on, say less the fall
(10:22):
all of it. Wow, you live in New York and
you don't like the fall. Anyone in is like, but
the fall is so great, And I'm like, sure, it's
it's impending doom. It is foreshadowing a nasty weather, and
so pumpkin spice latte just reminds me that, like, at
some point my shoulders are going to be cramped from
(10:45):
being like chattering freezing cold. So yeah, I don't I
don't like the fall, and the fall is so depressing
because it's the end of summer. I still I still
missed the fall. I don't know, I'm I do miss
I got I got a pumpkin spice beverage at dunkin
Donuts the other day just goes embarrassing, is how you
(11:05):
call it? When you just get the syrup I get,
I get the cold brew and then they just like
spike whatever, half a gallon of syrup in there. But
what's been going on at Dunkin Donuts is they have
a Charlie Demilio beverage that TikTok star and so now
Duncan Donuts is flooded with fourteen year old girls who
(11:26):
look exactly like TikTok stars getting the charlie, what's the
what's that, Charlie? What's that? What's the drink? She's like
a she's a teenager, like she's in her early twenties,
and she's a tick too. She's one of the TikTok girls,
I mean, not to be the TikTok girls. Is like
huh huh yeah, Like she does like three dance moves
and that's and she's a millionaire um, and she's got
(11:48):
a Dunkin Donuts drink that she has. And so now
there's a million young women who look like this TikTok
star at Duncan Donuts all the time getting in my way. Wow.
The Charlie is a really not very interesting drink. It's
a to go coffee order. It's cold brew with whole
milk and three pumps of caramel, which is the most
(12:11):
teenage Duncan Donuts order of all time, to be fair, Yeah,
exactly for a week. I remember back in my day,
it was called a caramel machiato, okay, and we were
drinking that in the Yeah, I'm in my thirties and
I ordered the Oprah tea from Starbucks because that's my Charlie. Yeah,
(12:33):
what's ok? Wait, what's Oprah tea? Spilled the ope for
a while she had her own like tea at Starbucks,
and anything with the word Oprah, I will buy. It
feels it feels wholesome, like it would heal you. I
would probably drink that strong. Yeah, I am such an
Oprah stand like a sponsored beverage. I don't know's it's,
(12:57):
but there's a you can get the Charlie a duncan.
You can get the Travis at McDonald's. You get the Oprah.
Start what the funk are we doing? Like every boy?
Then it's just like I I only eat what Kim
Kardashian ships out, and I will dress like Kendall or whatever,
you know, like every It's like we're finding a way
to make it so easy to just emulate celebrities and
now like the marketing just like, yeah, just order what
(13:19):
the celebrity gets now and that's like a new thing
you can do. La capitalism is wild, But might try
the Charlie at some point, don't know. Lake capital is wild.
And then you just hear like us you drinking the
end of a cup through it? Like, what's that, Charlie?
Is that it's whole milk? Three pumps of carmel swirl?
Oh man, what else? Let's see underrated? Esther, what do
(13:43):
you think is something that's underrated? This is going to
be like an embarrassing Oprah thing. But self care, m unplugging, journaling,
being alone with your own thoughts. Yeah, I'm talking no music,
no computer, just you yourself, one on one in your mind.
(14:05):
I'm really into that slash trying to be more into it.
It's very hard, but then it's so rewarding. You're like, wait,
I've been alone in my own thoughts for thirty minutes. Yeah,
and I didn't run out of the room screaming. I
think this is all right. It's it really especially right now.
(14:25):
I mean, good lord. You could as somebody who has
to look at the news every day and look Earth
and it's ugly eyes like every morning. It's it has
become a very major part of like my routine is
to meditate in the morning and meditate at night because
I just need to be able to like you don't
want to like, because you know I would do that
ship where you wake up people don't know Esther's body,
(14:48):
rolling to the idea of meditating, the idea of regular
self isolating. You should be on TikTok with all those moves, um,
but like no TikTok, No, it's fun, I wear then
we need one just yeah, well, I guess what who's
taking over it now? Like Oracle or fucking Microsoft at
a tuggle war? Either way, miss me with that. I'm
(15:09):
too old for it, y'all. I will do what I
used to do, upload videos to YouTube, um, Like it
doesn't work the same way, but it's really like necessary,
like for me, I can only speak for me, like
to try and start my day at neutral, because a
lot of times I can wake up and be like
what the funk happened today and going to my phone
and be like, come on, world, give me confirmation that
(15:30):
it's all going to ship. Which, yes, there are many
ways to look at it. They're also ways to feel
really good about things that are going on in the world,
Like there are moments where you can see how communities
are coming together and how other people are trying to
create solutions. But getting to like neutral, I think is
a real skill. I'm trying to cultivate more and more
right now, because it's is draining the funk out of everybody,
(15:53):
like realistically, and whether you're compartmentalizing and not actually realizing
that's happening. It's good too, even if you don't think that.
You're like I'm built for I'm built for fucking forty, Like, no,
you gotta come. Oh you guys are scared, not me.
(16:14):
I will cry in my room alone. I mean, just
give yourself some time, tell yourself. You know, we gotta
take it one day a time, because yeah, ship can
get overwhelming so damn quick. So yeah, anyone who is
still like, come at me is terrifying to me. I'm like,
I think it's come quite enough and we should not
really come. It's come quite enough. I am twenties, sub
(16:38):
you're simple, sim I mean it's really yeah, it's I
think the people who are like that though, like it's
truly the most scared people because it's it's just I
think it's easier for them to just like scream running
into the fire than to be like, Okay, it's a
fire and I'm scared and that's okay. I don't need
to like put my chest up against it. Maybe I
(17:00):
need to figure out how to protect myself a little bit,
protect our own What's what other routines you got to
to get in your own mind? Esther, like, what's your
what's your self care? What do you do? You set
a timer? You got a tape you listen to I'm
trying well. I like uh t M, which is like
just like quiet your mind and for twenty minutes, put
a little timer and then it's just one single mantra,
(17:23):
which I love. I also like very Oprah, like to
take a long bath, and like to like when I
Also I can't just like do yoga, like for some reason,
I need to like light a candle, put on Swae music,
put on like a glow, like like I really have
to set the mood because I'm I was. I used
(17:44):
to like go to a yoga class, and now I
have to like create serenity in my apartment, the same
place that I have like daily crisis and like anxiety.
So now I have to, like I mean, I feel
like I'm always putting on a play, and the play
is like okay, this is relaxed. Esther play like put
on the character right right right, be the sip some
(18:08):
Yogi t and like pretend your zen. Yeah, and then yeah,
we gotta walk before we run, you know. Uh. Finally,
I have worried that the brain can't handle the amount
of information, Like, were we supposed to know every single
problem in the entire world? No, definitely not. Are we
just supposed to know what's happening in our community. I
(18:30):
think we should probably start locally because that has the
most immediate effects. Uh, and then you know, zoom out.
But I think it's all you know, it's it's as
much as people can handle. Yeah, literally as much as
you can handle in a day without exploding. Yeah, and
just you know, realize that. But this, hopefully it's temporary
in the sense that, like anything, everything's influx and we
(18:52):
may just have to see the ugly part of the cocoon.
You're what is it a caterpillar before the butterfly comes out?
I don't know. That's my weird zen way of doing it,
so I don't scream. Uh. Finally, esther, what's a myth?
What's something people think is true that you know to
be false. Well, I have heard so many things about
(19:13):
open relationships, and it's just one of these things where
people have so many opinions like those don't work, those
do like blah blah blah, polly open. So I will
say I have explored an open relationship and it went
very well. So that's my It ended because some people
(19:33):
are like, oh, like all the dating things like oh,
if he wants to be open, then then that's not okay,
blah blah blah. So basically I was open in an
open relationship for a minute and then it ended because
we realized we just want to be with each other,
so it can and that's so nice. I wasn't ready
(19:57):
for that third act twist, the third act this was
we were monogamous, then open, then married and had a kid.
And if it wasn't for being open, like so now
I'm like you was the openness helped you sort of
realized like the value of your partner or was it
kind of like or you're like, man, I thought this
(20:17):
ship was cool, it's really not that cool, Like I'm
more built for monogamy. It was all of it. It
was like get in. It was also that and get
in your last harass sure that feelings how many people
have of like oh, I feel like I didn't get
in my last whatever before said, and damn, that's amazing.
(20:39):
I mean, I don't know how many people did unless
you're like really out there fucking like, I don't know
how many people like feel like oh yeah, I got
my last Hurrah, And I don't know, Like I feel
like it's a concept that a lot of people have.
If you look at marriage is like a fucking trapdoor,
or like, please find the one you love and then
together a bunch of people before you get married. But
(21:00):
don't be shady and be like let me see your
phone real quick and be like okay, really, okay, well
now do you as long as you're happy, don't look
at my Yeah, well I'm glad to see it's come
full story. This is like a script. It's like the
new millennial, like Sleepless in Seattle or some ship, you
know what I mean. Like it feels like like because
I look at I know a lot of people to
(21:21):
who have explored open relationships as well and people I
did not think would and have either like worked on
and be like, actually this suits me more because I
realized I am not a monogamous person and like I'm
kind of like I have a different viewpoint on relationships.
And then other people who have experimented and then realized
very quickly what they wanted. But you know, I feel like,
(21:43):
where's our script about this? You know what I mean?
Where's our modern love story about like trying to It's
trapped in COVID development. I know, isn't there like some
COVID movie that's about to actually come out that's like
leans so heavy into the pandemic. There was already a
series that like came out on Who Loue that was
like love in the time of COVID. And I'm like,
(22:03):
could you read the room less? Like, No, we didn't
at all. No, we didn't even walk into the room. Um, well,
I guess I guess we deserve it. I saw a
second of that and I was like, throwing your shoe
at the TV. The TV up, like it shouldn't have
been on. Al Right, well, let's take a quick break
(22:27):
and we'll get back to put another one of our
heroes to bed afterwards. And we're back and we were
talking and J. K Rowan was trending on Twitter and
(22:47):
I read a tweet something about it was just basically
saying like, Wow, what a career When I know when
your name is trending it's going to be about transphobia,
and it's true. J K. Rowling has really gone all
in to fully take the mask off on her turf
turf card uh and letting people know just like what
her worldview is. So all of the like things that
(23:09):
were bubbling up was this book called Troubled Blood. Troubled Blood,
which is part of the Cormer and Strike series of
detective books that she writes under a pseudonym cormeran Strike.
And isn't it a transphobic pseudonym? Like, oh, we'll get
to that. Yeah, how that now, let's just do that part.
Let's her pen name is Robert Galbraith, which many people
(23:33):
have pointed out, including our water jam McNab. That is
very similar to the name Robert Galbraith Heath who Jamie?
What is he famous for? What is he famous for it? Wait?
Let me he Oh. He was the pioneer of gay
conversion therapy who tried to cure homosexuality by implanting electrodes
into the pleasure center of the brain. Ah, that was
(23:57):
that was his thing. That's an interesting name to sort
of after she though before before you hop down j
K's back or whatever the saying is and then drag
her to Canceylvania or whatever you kids do. Uh? Is
she Charlie sipping a Charlie just just vibing on Cansylvania. Um. So,
(24:23):
she claims that the name is a mash up and
not the kind of hood Internet does of songs that
are really cool. It's a mashup of two names that
she really loved. Her quote political hero Robert Kennedy and
her childhood fantasy name, which was Ella Galbraith. That is bullshit.
I don't believe it for a second. Who has Okay,
(24:45):
I mean, I'm not trying to look I'm not trying
to shade fantasy Twitter fantasy listener, if that's your vibe,
But like, how many y'all had childhood fantasy names that
weren't like the last name of like the most time actor.
The most I had was a name I wish my
parents named me growing up, like I was like when
(25:06):
I was like, I wish I wasn't Miles, I wish
I was DJ. Did you have a name that your
parents almost named you that you think about sometimes? Yes,
my mom wanted to name me Byron. Oh that's a
good name. After Byron I almost got named Randy with
an eye, which I'm kind of glad I avoided dude Randy.
I would have been, like, I don't even I would
(25:27):
have been a totally different person. Shout out to the
homebo Randy from high school. She used to let us
smoke weed in her jeddah. But ye know this is
I don't believe. That sounds like an absolute lie to me.
Did you ever have a fake name? Esther? As a kid? So,
my middle name is ka as in k A Y
and I when I was a really young kid, I
like lied and said that it was Kazuki and like,
(25:47):
but but Esther wasn't understand hold on, come on, Kazuki.
What's going on? What I think that people are feeling, like,
what's that middle name? Kay? And it's like my name
is supposed to be esther hyphen k, so it's like
one words. When I was would be like esther k
es you K. And I think like I threw away
the K when I became an adult and I'm just like,
(26:08):
I don't need you anymore. You don't you don't know me,
and it ca just was like like being a little kid,
quizzes you're Kay, and it was all these boys picking
on me. Yeah, I mean, look, we're dumb animals and
the only way we know how to show interest is
to be mean and toxic. It's a it's an evolution.
(26:29):
I don't think we've overcome Oh you have, what's your
Starbucks name? I'll be like Jasmine, okay, y n. I
don't care how they spell. I'm like, I don't know
because I made it up, but like, I don't want
I don't want anyone yelling esther because it just kind
of sounds like my mom and it's Ester and I'm like,
(26:50):
I'll use my middle name for coffee sometimes just John,
but juice. I used to say my name was t
r F because I was a stupid little troll asshole,
and they'd be like, what's your name? I'm like dwarf
bro hated. They hated me as I as I walked
up in a motherfucking embroidered polo shirt with my name's
(27:13):
fucking embroidered on the front of it. That's just said
Miles on it. But I worked upstairs at the Laser
tag place. Anything they knew what it was. This is
how I was with my bag yass Cargo Khaki Cargo pants.
Oh god, it's laser tag dwarf. Yeah, here it comes.
It's yeah, here comes. Later they were just like pretty soon,
they're just rolled miles. They're like fuck you, and I'm like, damn,
(27:33):
it was good when people didn't put it together. But
back to j K rowing. We digress because we are
so thrown off by Ella all Braith where her name
is um. So the this whole series has been like
just this is weird thing. It's about this fucking like
detective or whatever. And this specific installment deals with the
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cold case quote of a woman who disappeared in nineteen
seventy four and is believed to be the victim of
Dennis Creed. And this is this is where they lift
text directly from the Brooke quote A transvestite serial killer.
That's that's how she's describing this. Obviously, transvestite is terribly
derogatory and outdated, and it's just not even it's not
(28:15):
even close to talking about what a trans person is.
It's just just throw that, just throw that term away.
Don't you don't need to If you hear anybody saying,
but hey, but when you hey, when you when you
really got to show your ass, though, you're going to
dig up old ass terms. They say that. This review
from The Telegraph goes on to say, quote one wonders
(28:35):
what critics of rolling stance on trans issues will make
of a book whose moral seems to be never trust
a man in address. Okay, the pope wear address. I mean,
if we want to go there. Yeah, and his dresses
are fly, you know what I mean. It is just
so upsetting. I'm just so disappointed. And I was never
a Harry Potter person. Ever. I'm so proud of that.
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I'm one of those I'm like shittily proud. But it
was really like I was too old at the time anyway,
So it was never I was never like pushing back
against like what all of my friends were doing, like, oh,
you guys read your Harry Potter. But at the time,
I was like I was a perfect ags and I
was a little edge lord, and I was like, a
serious of unfortunate events is better like that, right, which
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is a equally shitty child take. But nickt Hive over here,
I was right, Yeah, I mean, it's the like tropes
that she's talking about. I think I mentioned it last
week with Jack. But there's a new documentary on Netflix
from a few months ago called Disclosure that like covers
all of these tropes in media really thoroughly, and I
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mean just kind of breaks down like what the like
man in an address as a danger trope represented and
it's just yeah, it's in Psycho. It's like with Mormon
Bates stressing as his mother fucking buffalo Bob, like very directly. Uh,
it's it's all so anyway to go on. You know,
(30:04):
this isn't the first time that it's happened. There was
another one in the second Cormer in Strike Book of
the Silkworm, there's a woman named Pippa who stocks detective
Strike before attempting to stab him. Uh. Strike traps this
woman in his office, then revealing her identity as a
trans woman with rolling adding in a description of her
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Adam's apple and hands. The detective then tells Pippa that
prison quote won't be fun for you, not pre op
This is this all straight hateful trash, like it's I
don't know what does she like? Beam up? She smokes
a fat bowl and she's like, all right, trying to
get in my fucking garbage mind of Robert Galbraith and right,
(30:45):
people have too much money. Yeah yeah, yeah, Like she's
just like quadrupling down on it. At this point. It's
like embarrassing for her too, because it's like, why are
you It's the creepy, creepy, creepy obsession of are like
menstruating bodies. Like it's just the fucking creepiest, weirdest thing
(31:05):
in the world too, I don't know, and it's actively harmful.
This is so gross. Yeah, so I can't believe this
story is still happening. You know what's funny though, because
you see a lot of people like come to her
defense on Twitter, and it's all like these sycophantic people
who like need work or like the first side of
blue check. Yeah, we're like, oh, we gotta get together,
(31:26):
even though like it's the totally wrong take, because who
knows in the end, I might maybe it's good to
have this person like have my back, but you know,
we've we see it in every industry. Moving on to
just another dark story. There's been a complaint being filed
in Georgia against ice Um, someone who's working in detention
facilities whistleblowing, and the complaint has gotten a lot of
(31:50):
attention because of like it talks a lot to do,
mostly with detainees being denied COVID tests and treatment when
they're showing full, like telltale signs of infection and only
being given like hyberprofin and like over the counter medicine
or just being completely just told to like like funk
off essentially um. And then another dark detail that's starting
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to come out is that in this complaint there are
allegations that detainees are being forced they're forced sterilizations occurring
in these facilities where like these detainees are being told
they might have an ovarian cyst and then they end
up with a hysterectomy um or another procedure involving their
fallopian tubes. And there's been like to the point where
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in in this complaint there are detainees alleging that there
is a doctor that's colloquially known as the uterus collector,
because whenever this doctor is seeing a detainee, it's like
almost a guarantee that it's some kind of sterilization procedure um.
And many people like you know, I mean the unfortunately
it's mostly the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is
(32:56):
like full voice being like this is like what the
fuck is going on. Um and just another you know,
another dimension to the absolute campaign of like terror that
this administration is enacting on people that don't look like
you know, the posters from the fifties, right, Um, well,
(33:19):
where to begin Jesus, We're like on some straight up
Dr Mangela. You know, this is like eugenic shit, but
this is where we're at. Yeah, I mean, and it's
like eugenics or so is so like baked into so
much of what exists in the world already. But it's
I mean, just like this level it it it sounds
(33:43):
like a movie, the fucking Uterus Collector. Sounds like a
Quentin Tarantino character in movie, Like, yeah, really any era
to be honest, this is yeah, this is really timeless.
Can we just I think we agree that I have
no notes? Uh yeah, it's but again, this is you know,
(34:06):
it's it's really sort of indicative. And I say this
because this year is coming all over it's coming fast,
and it's one thing after the other. Like they didn't
you know, they could only give two seconds to the
fact that Trump knew about Russian bounties on U S soldiers,
or he's denigrating the families of fallen soldiers or generally
like it's just it's it's going and going and going.
(34:27):
And I think it's it's this sort of like looking
at the news that can give you this feeling of like,
holy sh it, like where do I put my attention
right now? And then? And that my big question is
has this crazy, horrible, awful things always been happening And
it's the first time that in the history that we
(34:48):
have cameras everywhere and where of social media. That's like
we're all finding out about the details, which is a
good thing. It's like it's all being exposed. But again,
this is what we know? What do we not know? Yeah?
The dark side is like, even though we know it,
the people at in power, are they going to be
compelled enough to do what's right? Because it's hard to tell,
(35:12):
you know, right, I mean, especially because there's so much
happening that the fact that a story like this horrifying
could be buried to basically the bottom of the news.
Who knows. It seems like there even with very very
pressing issues, it's only the issues that are getting a
ton of public attention that are really acted upon. Um. Yeah,
(35:36):
never reminds me of like I don't know if you
guys saw athletes A but it was the the Olympic
team's gymnastics. Oh no, that documentary doctor And there was
complaints about him, like molesting and being inappropriate for so
many years. It could have stopped with ten women and
then it more complaints. It could have stopped with twenty,
(35:56):
but they got to like five hundred and something women
were molested by him, and it took that long. So
it's like, well, yeah, they're so important to get it
early because victims just stack up. I mean, there were
already allegations of sexual abuse happening in the facilities, you know,
And I think that's where we realize how ill equipped
(36:21):
like democrats are to figure out how what what can
even be done because like there, you know, at the time,
I remember there are people trying to enter facilities and
then uh they were like you can't actually enter here,
and like, I'm a fucking congress per don't if I
you're talking about, I can't come in here, And like
that's this is such a dark, ugly dimension. On top
of the science denial, on top of the unabashed, unfettered
(36:43):
killing of black and brown, unarmed people in this cred
It's like it's it's truly a fucking all you can
eat nightmare buffet of this year. UM. But all that
to say is like, I know it's hard to hear
stories like this, and like, what can we do? At
the very least, you just just figure out how you're
gonna mobile is every single person you know to vote
to start? Yeah, this is this is the kind of
(37:04):
story that when you come across it, you're just like,
what the funk could I possibly do? But like besides vote,
And but it's on top of that, I feel like
it is also just like on the public to continue
to talk about stories like this and not just let
it be like a single day of like, wow, this
is scary, uh, and then something scary is gonna happen
(37:25):
tomorrow and then move on. But it's like stories like
this in particular, where it seems like the only thing
that UM institutions are even at least acknowledging are things
that are getting a lot of negative attention. And so
it's like unfortunate that we have to like K pop
stand mobilize every time something horrific happens. But I feel
like that is a big part of it, of like
not letting stories like this just slipped through the news cycle,
(37:49):
because then they just continue to happen. It's so yes. Uh,
these are the kinds of things that there are so
many headlines that you can miss something like this that's
as horrific as the forced sterilization of Isotaines. Um, let's
move on to another story that you know had attention
(38:11):
than didn't and then goes back and forth. Brianna Taylor
and her murder. Uh. It seems that the city of
Louisville is prepared to pay her mother twelve million dollars
in a settlement UM over the no knock warrant that
they served that ended with her killing. UM. The settlement
will be the largest paid by the City of Louisville,
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I think before eight and a half million was the highest.
And they said there will also be uh some police
reforms as part of the settlement. I'm not sure what
those reforms are, but I do know that only one
person of the three officers involved had any kind of
real disciplinary action over this. And while I think this
(38:55):
is a good first step, I think at the end
of the day, like we're all also want to see
real change happened within how this policing is occurring. I
know they're saying like, well, okay, we'll knock off the
non nor knock warrants and we'll stop when we'll wear
body cameras. But as far as I can tell, their
budgets haven't been touched. I haven't seen anything about you know,
qualified immunity is still a huge issue, uh that things
(39:18):
are going on. But um, at the very least, if
this can bring any shred of comfort to her family,
I think I think it's great. Um, But at the
very least, we know that the work still continues, because
you know, the killings have not stopped. Mm hmm. And
from what I understand, like the reason the money is
so important other than like you want to, you know,
(39:39):
take care of costs and stuff, but like the money
is important because if if the city has to pay
for these mistakes, and it's millions of millions of dollars,
then the city is going to be like, let's let's
take some precautions because we don't want to continue paying
millions of dollars in lawsuits. Like that's the goal is
for the city to make changes. And if it's because
(40:01):
of money, then I guess we'll take it. Yeah, I
wish they just didn't do the thing though, or they're like, damn,
it costs money, all right, so then the police need
their own budget just to settle. And well, the thing
is like so many of the proposed solutions that are
still going around involved giving the police more money, which
is just like fucking in. I mean, especially where we're
(40:23):
living in a city where the police budget is a
billion dollars, You're like, how could you not you know,
make it work with a billion dollars? Why are why
are there additional taxpayer money getting you more bodycams which
you will continue to disregard, like inconveniently lose footage from Well,
I think that's the thing. Like to Esther's point too,
is like they also want to make it so like
(40:44):
a cop would have to actually ensure themselves, so the
city isn't paying for this ship and be like okay,
so you got the money, or you like, who's who's
paying for this? Because not the city anymore? Uh. And
you can't just murder people, uh without any sort of
send of justice or consequence. And that's yeah. And also
(41:06):
if you live in the city of Los Angeles, be
sure to vote for measure ja coming up in the election.
We'll be talking more about that to come. We'll have
some people to talk about that, because I think that's
a really important thing locally that can be done. All right,
let's take another quick break. We'll be back to talk
tigers and Captain America Penis after this, and we're back.
(41:39):
So Carol Baskin, Um, she was on Dancing with the Stars.
I don't know if anyone saw that. Anyone saw the
paso doble. She did too. I saw like a passing
clip of it. I was like going this morning. I mean,
she apparently people were trashing her apostle doble skills said
(42:01):
it was straight trash. And she danced to Eye of
the Tiger, which was a total surprise because I don't
see how those are related to get there. Um, the
whole thing, the whole thing was just very strange. You know,
like a lot of people were like kind of being
like it's weird because like Tiger King, no one really
(42:23):
comes out of that looking like the better person, you know,
in terms of like whether you're doing like a more
whimsical form of like animal abuse or just more of
like in your face fashion killing your husband. Yes, which
is another element where people like, we just there's a
lot like sort of attached to Carol Baskin. It's not
(42:43):
the first like likely murderer that's been on Dancing with
the Stars. So yeah, like every piece of ship that
is like that needs more press has been on that show.
But so the thing that was really breathtaking, um, is
(43:04):
that during the broadcast a commercial plate and it's from
the family of Don Lewis, her missing husband. Wait what
they paid money? Ere a commercial when Carol Baskin was
on in the Tampa and Jacksonville markets, and it was
(43:25):
a few others in Florida. And I'm just gonna play
the audio from this just so you can imagine you've
just seen Carol bask into her positive She's literally Gail.
Oh my god, I'm Gail. I'm Gail. Here we go.
And this is the commercial that played. I'm Gail, one
of Don Lewis's daughters. We are a real family, and
(43:46):
to us, he was daddy. I'm Linda, one of Don
Lewis's daughters, and we miss our dad. I'm Donna. I'm
Don Lewis's oldest daughter. We need to know what happened
to our father. I'm Anne Don's former assistance. All we're
asking is justice for done mysteriously disappeared in his family
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deserves answers. They deserved justice. Do you know who did this?
Where Carol Basting was involved. Reward has been funded. You
can call it chip line at six or six zero
six five for them. Honestly, I'm like, if my dad
got Tiger disappeared, the least you could do is get
(44:35):
him a good commercial with bad audio broadcast. Yeah, it's heavy.
It's like, that's just so weird. It's like even on
his show, like Dancing with the Stars, apparently Charles Oakley
danced better than Carol basket Um. The like the idea
that a commercial then comes on with a family begging
(44:58):
for justice. Like while it's again fucking twenty fucking twenty, y'all,
and I am Dancing with the Stars with just accused murderers,
and that's where we're at, right, I feel like just there, Yeah,
like let them have their own season. Yeah they should
do like the canceled season. And it's just like male
(45:19):
comedians who have accused of like sexual assault, dance the
cha cha and then we do our murders. Because I
feel like masked Masked Singer would be a good platform
too for campul people too, because they're like, oh, look
how talented I am, But I'm dressed as a parakeet
just kidding, I'm a murderer. How do you feel? I
(45:41):
love it? Yeah, that trick. Do you know what sit
on that idea, Jamie? I think we need to We
need to call our friends over at Fox for that
is that is that where a masked singer is? Oh? Yeah,
I don't know obviously channel Wait was that thoughts? I
(46:02):
don't know. Lazy Lacey knew someone who was a body
double for the masked singer that was like, yeah, Lazy
is like former Okay, I might be misremembering this chain,
but Lazy's former roommate used to be a body double
for like the like b roll of the mass singer.
(46:23):
Because it wouldn't be like, you know, an actual like
rumor Willis wouldn't show up for the b roll. That
would be Lacey's roommate inside of a flamingo costume. It
was rumor a good singer rumor I think one or
like came close to winning. I only watched the first
two seasons. That show has been on for two years,
(46:44):
but somehow there's like nineteen seasons but Wayne Brady, yeah yeah,
he won and then uh t yeah t Kine and
his like gorgeous vibrato one. This is something like the
twenty ninth season of Dancing with the Stars, and I'm like,
all right, whatever, remember when it was Bristol Palin and
(47:07):
that was like the news They've always told what's going
to do. They've managed to always lower the bar, though,
you know, like it's like to the point where it's
gonna be the like Covington Catholic Magoteen like whoever was
speaking at the r n C. I think it's just
like the pipeline to Dancing with the Stars, Like Stormy Daniels,
has she done it? That's like you she hasn't. She
(47:31):
must be furious like that seems like or like whenever
whenever what's his name finally gets fired form like whenever
a Fox News anchor gets fired, they'll probably just trickle
down there at some point. Yeah, Roger as Roger Hales competed.
(47:52):
I believe one last bit of really important info before
we go. Yeah, Ris Evans, he plays Captain America. Correct,
that's Captain America. That's him. I always mix up my Chriss,
but I double checked that's he's always that's a joke.
You know. He's one of the chris Is that we
(48:12):
don't know which one with the muscles in the face,
because I think the most famous Chris maybe neck and
neck with Chris Pratt, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Hemsworth, there's this Chris.
These are people I went to school with. Chris Angel,
Chris Angel, mind freak. Y'all respect the mind freak please.
(48:34):
Chris Jenner. Oh there we go. Um so this Chris. Okay,
I missed the whole thing, but I know it's trending
that this this Chris specifically had he accidentally uploaded his
own dick picks to Instagram. Can someone break this down
for me? That he didn't it was on his I
(48:56):
G stories, So he was my under standing, and I
didn't have a ton of time to prepare for the
Chris Evans dick pick stories, so please don't drag me
in the comments. But he did one of those like
screen records where he was going through his photo role
and then if you like stopped at You're like, oh,
what is going on in this photo role? So there
(49:18):
was like it was like a screen share mistake where
I think maybe I don't even know if he accidentally
pulled up his photo role or he was just pulling
something up. But he has a million jillion fans who
were like going a screenshot everything, and so there was
a pretty fascinating photo role at play. There was a
(49:38):
dick pick, but there was also a lot of other
stuff where there was like there were a couple of
memes that I think he just like saved to his
phone to send to people. And there was also a
picture of Robert Pattinson standing in a sweatsuit in a
kitchen and like like as if he took it on
his phone or like from achine. I see. That's the
thing is I'm pretty sure it was not. I'm sure
(50:00):
it was a known existing photo of Robert Pattinson, which
is even weirder of like why did he save that
picture of Robert Pattinson? Are they friends with? That's the
story I find compelling. But yeah, everyone, I guess people.
I guess people wanted to see his dick. I don't.
I don't know. I'm like, I don't need to see
a guy named Chris is dick. You know, Like how
hard could that possibly be blowing up in America. It's
(50:21):
like standard by a guy from Massachusetts named Chris that
shows you a dick and then says it was an accident. Um, yeah, Ben,
They're not interested. This just happens so much. Guys are like, um,
Jamal Murray, did you guys? Hear like his he accidentally
(50:42):
posted a um blow blow job from his girlfriend who's
like a college athlete, and he's like, I'm so sorry,
but oh, I'm phenomenal. Should not watch Maybe I'm so sorry. Yeah,
but yeah. It's so sick of guys accidentally why, like,
(51:04):
like the other thing, I feel like it's like because
didn't he he like followed up this story by promoting
his like political nonprofit and being like, my dick wants
you to vote in November, sort of like, while I
have your attention, I guess vote November three, which I'm like,
I guess, but I don't know every I think. I'm
(51:26):
just very skeptical towards every time a guys like you
saw my dick by mistake. I'm like, but was it
by mistake? It could have just been I mean, I
could get very tinfoil hat about this situation. In a
New six part series on iHeart called the Evans dick
Accident or Not just a segment called this Chris Tutts,
(51:51):
how many oopsies nude dick picks from men versus like
what women? Just never accidentally posting new pictures. It's amazing
never taking a photo of my penis unless it's for
medical purposes. That's like it is my question about dick picks.
I'm like, I don't object to their existence, but I
(52:13):
just Some'm like, when you when you're really horny, why
would I don't I don't get it, but maybe I'm
just like sex is so embarrassing? Why would you want
to document it? Yeah? I went to church every Sunday,
so I don't know anything about this. The women women
don't like dick pics in general, it's a very The
(52:34):
women I know don't like tickpics, except I do know
a couple of women that do. And those women are
extremely vocal. They have an inbox like a whole Gmail
set up for shit, and they are like women who
are poster children for like, I do want your dick pic.
So if there is a woman that wants your dick pick,
they really make it. No, yeah, right, no, yeah, that's yeah.
(52:55):
It's like how guys will say they'll be like send
nudes please, like women are like, yo, let me get
that shaft shot real quick from the underside. Like there.
I think my least favorite part of this Chris Evans
story is Mark Ruffalo finding a way to insert himself,
(53:17):
which is he just replied to he just added Chris
Evans and was like, bro, while Trump is in office,
there is nothing you could possibly do to your to
embarrass yourself silver lining and you're just like, shut the
funk up, Mark Ruffle, That's that was just And then
Medicine Quote tweeted him and was like, Mark, I know
(53:39):
you have that man's phone number. Like it's just like
Mark Rufflo being like, oh, free attention by talking about
my friend's penis. Yeah. I thought he was gonna be like,
how did you get ahold of my photos? Yeah? I
mean it's like they're not bad people, but they're just
corny as hell, and it's exhausting. I'm never seen though
(54:00):
this much support for a dick pick though, like his
like even his fan accounts that like they love him.
They were like, here's the here's pictures with him and
his dog. It's okay, and then other people were like,
I love it. Was it Safari or I can't remember
if his Safari's dick pick or Meek mil one of
the two. Yeah, and like recently but no a while ago.
(54:24):
Oh yeah, that I think it was pomen all that
I felt like that that was um definitely celebrated that one. Yeah,
Safari's nudes. I think that was like, that was like
two years ago, wasn't it again? Men are just like, whoops, yea,
and here I'm over here, like that was two years ago?
(54:46):
Wasn't it Safari's nudes? I believe that was February. Let
me look at my oh manac, accidental. Chris is just
like he could be literally any hot person to me,
So ultimately I'm is like, this is a generic looking
hot person who's gotten a lot of press for dating
like comedian Jenny Slate, Jenny Slate. That's the most interesting
(55:09):
thing about him is that he dated Jenny Slate. He
dated a woman with a personality, and we're all like,
oh my god, that's interesting as someone who's from who
hails from the Commonwealth. Jamie is he is he traditionally
like Boston hot. He uh in some pictures in some
pictures he like had like when he's like relaxing, and
(55:30):
then sometimes he's wearing a little silver chain. You're like, oh,
he's definitely from Massachusetts. He's a boy from Massachusetts, but
he doesn't really present that way. I know that when
I was still writing like a clickbait for the Boston Globe. Um,
when I first got out of college, you would just
have to like do some right up every time Chris
Evans took a hot ship. And so I think I'm
(55:51):
just generally like you're like, oh, Mark Wahlberg, like, Chris
Evans pooped this morning and it was just like a
news story. Jenny Slate war shoes because she's like from
there too. I think we need new heroes and again
little poopy. You know, let's let's you know what I mean. Uh,
(56:15):
let's we'll just well I'm from Tampa, Florida. So all
we have is Carol. Well I heard she took a
poop yesterday. There we go. Yeah you had to write
about that on your block. Yeah, Esther, thank you so
much for stopping by the show today. Really appreciate you. Um,
where can people find you and follow you? Support you?
(56:35):
And what's a tweet that you like. I mean, sadly,
I'm like stepping away from Twitter because all social media
is kind of evil. But anyone who like just outwardly
blatantly shit talks Trump and doesn't care if they lose
followers is my favorite tweet. Um and Um I'm on Twitter,
(56:58):
Esther ka and and um Esther dot Seinberg on Instagram.
And I've got a new podcast coming out about um
interviewing female comedians about their birth and motherhood journey. So cool.
It's called Stand Up Mom. Anyways, that's uh, um probably
in the next couple of weeks. It all depends on
(57:20):
when my son stops teething. And uh, that's really the schedule.
We will. We're sending vibes the teething, so the teething ends.
This work out to the world. Jamie, what about you?
I can find me on Twitter at Jamie Loftus help Instagram,
(57:42):
Jamie christ Superstar. I'm gonna shout out a tweet from
Aida Osman. Um. This just made me laugh this morning.
She said, I've always wanted to be a whistleblower, but
unfortunately I don't fucking know anything. From at shut up Ada,
(58:02):
I love that. Um. You can find me on Twitter
and Instagram at Miles of Gray. Let's see some tweets
that I like. Okay, so this is a tweet from
this mom and so twe as a photo test, he said.
Her tweet says, y'all, so my child asked to where
her sunglasses to school today? Fine, I figured they were
(58:22):
going to take them off for for picture day, because
why would you need sunglasses for fall pictures? Right, y'all?
She puts a picture her little daughter's like eight or nine,
is stunting with her sunglasses on, like holding the edge
of the frames in her school photo. And it's like
the greatest energy I've ever like it. Oh my god,
(58:42):
It's like I've never had something make me smile so instantly.
So please please please check that tweet out. I'm gonna
retweet that ship, so just look at my page if
you need to find it. Another one is from at
Human Aaron. The tweet is you can say okay John
Mayor to any white dude playing guitar and it drives
them nuts. It's the greatest thing ever. Go try it,
(59:04):
very very flippant. Also, you can find me on my
other podcast while I'm at it, four twenty Day Fiance,
where I'm setting high talking about ninety day fiance with Alexander.
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So this track is called Trip to Douseldorf, which, if
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this is a track from Salmon Cat and this is
you know, I'm about to say the same thing over
and over. It's got vibes, It makes you feel laid back,
It makes a big toe shoot U being your boot,
Yes it does that. But the vocals are very ethereal.
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I don't want to I don't want to know about it.
I don't want I don't want to talk about it.
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You caught me in drilling like cann Forget jowder.
Oh Internet, you know what time it is. It's time
for the Substitute Teacher from Heaven exactly because I'm so
nice with it. It is season one, episode three of
the Daily's Like guys production of iHeart Radio. It's the
podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. Subconsciousness. Well,
whether it's deeper than that, I don't know. The layers
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of consciousness. We will go into the fifth dream level
of inception. I don't give a quck. Well, we're there
and we're here to say off the rip, Buck, the
Coke Brothers as in you know, Coke Industry, Bove, Fox News,
Buck Fonding on cakes it's too much. It's hard to
eat with all that ship on there also Buck Rush
Limbob Ben Shapiro, Tucker Cross and JK. Round will get
to her later on. Uh yeah, oh you're you still,
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oh UK per fonding. I'm still kind of tempted to
Cape for Fondent, but maybe that's just like my inner
have watched by the Cape of Fondent, like you guys
talking about the cake bus. Anyway, It's Wednesday, September sixty twenty.
My name is Miles Gray, a k a oh God, Miles, great,
(01:07):
it's your birthday. We're gonna record podcast like it's your birthday.
Watch ninety Dave, like is your birthday? And you know,
we don't give up is if it's your birthday because
technically today is not my birthday. Well technically today is
the day we record this, but the day that you
will listen to this is not my birthday. But I'm
in the mood, so that's the spiritual feeling birthday at
the time, you know what I mean, the biggest mistake
(01:28):
you ever made was telling everybody that you're you have
the same birthday as Prince Harry because it always pops
up in trending topics and you're like, ship Miles and
tell me it was his birthday again. But I'm always
gonna know. I'm not a big birthday person, you know,
I don't really have I don't do parties. Last time,
what I used to do is just go to um,
what's the spot text on suns? You know, right there
(01:50):
is just a little text lounge drink. That's the most
I'll do for birthday. That's about it. Like freaky ask
music whatever they're playing there. Yeah, which when when it
becomes a gentrified apartment building. Who knows what total be
left that place we're gonna protect protect. Yeah serious, are you?
Are you going to eat a snack on your birthday? Ye?
(02:11):
Have a snack for sure. I'm gonna have like a
probably a cheesy croissant or something something rich, you know,
just to feel feel old, something for you, something you
got to and yes, without further ado, I mean, look,
we just started talking, but there was I gotta introduce
this other voice. It's not just a disembodied voice we're hearing.
It's not a ghost visiting me and my dreams. It
is none other than my guest co host today, the
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one and only Jamie Loft. This I here's here's an
a k I got right here goes uh goodbuz amboy
Queen of Corona seeing me a sonny down by the
ice rink. I kind of like that one that's from
the underscore that I like it. Also, my ak shout
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out to you know, Christie Almagucci Maine, the one and
only shout out to you the best imposers. We've got
a fantastic guest today. Somebody who is we've we've we've
been like, when when is she coming? When are we
gonna when do I get to talk to us? When
do we get to get into the mind of this person?
It is none I said none under when not really
mean none other than though wonderfully, brilliantly talented, hilarious comedian herself.
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Esther Steinberg, Thank you welcome, very sweet welcoming. Oh It's
at least we can do, you know, just to welcome
you with open arms to this little pot of ours.
The daily like happy birthday, Oh, come on now, thank you,
though the years keep adding un just let it, just
(03:43):
let it wash over you to feel joy about that.
I'm like, when it's pandemic, birthdays are right, and I'm like,
I'm like, I just want to look at a blue
scott Okay, well maybe I'll You know, every day you
gotta just kind of lower your expectation. Every day you
just kinda you have to lower your expectations a little
bit too, so it feels realistic. So like I'll be like,
I would like a less gray morning tomorrow, and then
(04:05):
that will feel good because their broady is still pretty
wild out here. How are things on your side of
the continent, Esther, Oh, Brooklyn is amazing. It's the one
time in my life that I'm like, New York's got
better weather than Los Angeles. I know. DJ Daniel was
in New York last week and he was just gloating.
He's like, honestly, the weather is like perfect, Yeah, it's
(04:28):
three more days. But in Brooklyn it's spectacular because, um,
there's no tourists, so like there's not a lot to do,
Like I can't go to a Broadway show. Um, you know,
like I was doing every night. But when you live
in New York, it's like Broadway show after Broadway show.
I mean you're right that yeah, and Grace Papaya, right
(04:49):
and Broadway Show. Hey, shut the funk up. That must
be bad without the tourists because we're the people who
will buy the spread Love is the Brooklyn Waite you know, souvenirs.
I am buying them still, um, spread Love, it's the
Brooklyn Waite t shirts. But it's uh, it's really nice
(05:14):
without them. I'm not sorry to interrupt you. What's the temperature?
What's the ambient air temperature? Just so I can get
a pie, Like, I don't know what ambient just the
air and I'm sorry, that's what temperature it is. So
it's sixty six degrees mostly sunny. Wow, and you and
out out your window there is blue. Oh my god,
(05:35):
it's green out there. It's just like it's sunny and cute.
But like, honestly, there's like a slight chill in the air,
which in l A you get like that little chill
and you're like, oh, the little chill. And in New
York the little chill is just like knock, knock, knock,
and then on the other side of the door is
like this like winter monster. Your life nice right now.
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I'm just like having other my families in Massachusetts. I've
just been having them described the weather to me. Yeah,
that's I mean, look, that's how like we've really simplified things.
Before I'd be like, man, I wish I'd had this
or that or that. I'm like, tell me about the
sky where you are, And I'm like, and that is
a birthday gift esther. We're gonna get to know you
even better. But before we do that, we're gonna take
(06:21):
people down the down the Primrose Path to talk about
what we're gonna be talking today. J k Rowling. She's, uh,
you know, we talked about in the Trending episode yesterday
but she is continuing her streak with her transphobic work. UH,
and it just there's with our writer JM has illiminated
a few things about her work that I didn't I
(06:42):
didn't realize that that. We'll get into that. Um and
even more horrific news. There's an Ice there's a complaint
coming out of ICE detention centers that shows we are
quite possibly in the darkest further confirmation of the darkest
timeline of American history. Uh. Pelosi is having trouble h
to the left and the right of her trying to
figure out how to do, you know, create a relief
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package for people. Brianna Taylor's mother settled with the city
of Louisville. We'll talk about what that looks like. Carol
Baskin was on Dancing with the Stars, just making a
out of herself come up. But yeah, we got that in.
Maybe we'll even get to Chris Evans dick Picks at
some point, because that's just yeah about a picture of
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Robert Pattinson he had on his photo role. I have
questions about that. I have more everyone focused on the
Dick Pick. I had the question. I had questions about
the screenshots around the dick pick. Wow, Okay, well this
is this is this is great. Well we're going to
get into all of that, but first esther, what's something
from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
(07:50):
My search history is sad. We have diastes RECTI workout,
which is when the abs separate when you're pregnant. You
have to work out in a very specific way to
try to get the gap. So I've been obsessed with
I'm like neurotically worried about this thing that I might
not even have. That's what all I search, and then
(08:10):
teething rash, what's teeth? What diet done? So I had
a kid three and a half months ago. We've met
over zoom. A beautiful child. Shout out to you. No,
Moses is cute. My body has been mangled like a
used car. And one of the things that happens to
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the mangled body that is a child bearing woman is
that the abdomens separate to make room for the baby.
And then you have the baby and everyone's like, oh baby,
No one gives a funk about your like damaged um.
So you have to Everyone's like get your snap back,
(08:57):
and I've like refused to snap back. Oh, I will
snap back when I feel like snapping back, which thank you. Yeah.
And then and then like I finally was like, there's
something wrong with me. And so now I'm like going
down the rabbit hole of trying to like google things
that are like wrong with women, and it's who have
babies like diastus reckedy is when your abs are still separated.
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And then and I'm also googling like physical therapy and
pelvic floor and all this stuff, half because I'm concerned
and half because I'm like, oh, there's something wrong with me,
and that's why I can't work out. This is this
is like I can't work out. The snake is truly eating.
(09:41):
It's yeah, I'm so sick and I can't work out,
but I need to lay down. But I keep googling
until I find like us to just lay down and
be as you can. Like some you get a physical
human being knocks on your door from Google and it's like, hey, um,
this doesn't happen a lot, but we'd love you just
(10:02):
just you have a seat here. I brought I brought
a lavender herb mask. You can just lay on your
eyes to chill out. From Google. We kind of care sometimes, Um,
what is something that you think is overrated? Uh, pumpkin
spice latte? M hm, go on, say less the fall
(10:22):
all of it. Wow, you live in New York and
you don't like the fall. Anyone in is like, but
the fall is so great, And I'm like, sure, it's
it's impending doom. It is foreshadowing a nasty weather, and
so pumpkin spice latte just reminds me that, like, at
some point my shoulders are going to be cramped from
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being like chattering freezing cold. So yeah, I don't I
don't like the fall, and the fall is so depressing
because it's the end of summer. I still I still
missed the fall. I don't know, I'm I do miss
I got I got a pumpkin spice beverage at dunkin
Donuts the other day just goes embarrassing, is how you
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call it? When you just get the syrup I get,
I get the cold brew and then they just like
spike whatever, half a gallon of syrup in there. But
what's been going on at Dunkin Donuts is they have
a Charlie Demilio beverage that TikTok star and so now
Duncan Donuts is flooded with fourteen year old girls who
(11:26):
look exactly like TikTok stars getting the charlie, what's the
what's that, Charlie? What's that? What's the drink? She's like
a she's a teenager, like she's in her early twenties,
and she's a tick too. She's one of the TikTok girls,
I mean, not to be the TikTok girls. Is like
huh huh yeah, Like she does like three dance moves
and that's and she's a millionaire um, and she's got
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a Dunkin Donuts drink that she has. And so now
there's a million young women who look like this TikTok
star at Duncan Donuts all the time getting in my way. Wow.
The Charlie is a really not very interesting drink. It's
a to go coffee order. It's cold brew with whole
milk and three pumps of caramel, which is the most
(12:11):
teenage Duncan Donuts order of all time, to be fair, Yeah,
exactly for a week. I remember back in my day,
it was called a caramel machiato, okay, and we were
drinking that in the Yeah, I'm in my thirties and
I ordered the Oprah tea from Starbucks because that's my Charlie. Yeah,
(12:33):
what's ok? Wait, what's Oprah tea? Spilled the ope for
a while she had her own like tea at Starbucks,
and anything with the word Oprah, I will buy. It
feels it feels wholesome, like it would heal you. I
would probably drink that strong. Yeah, I am such an
Oprah stand like a sponsored beverage. I don't know's it's,
(12:57):
but there's a you can get the Charlie a duncan.
You can get the Travis at McDonald's. You get the Oprah.
Start what the funk are we doing? Like every boy?
Then it's just like I I only eat what Kim
Kardashian ships out, and I will dress like Kendall or whatever,
you know, like every It's like we're finding a way
to make it so easy to just emulate celebrities and
now like the marketing just like, yeah, just order what
(13:19):
the celebrity gets now and that's like a new thing
you can do. La capitalism is wild, But might try
the Charlie at some point, don't know. Lake capital is wild.
And then you just hear like us you drinking the
end of a cup through it? Like, what's that, Charlie?
Is that it's whole milk? Three pumps of carmel swirl?
Oh man, what else? Let's see underrated? Esther, what do
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you think is something that's underrated? This is going to
be like an embarrassing Oprah thing. But self care, m unplugging, journaling,
being alone with your own thoughts. Yeah, I'm talking no music,
no computer, just you yourself, one on one in your mind.
(14:05):
I'm really into that slash trying to be more into it.
It's very hard, but then it's so rewarding. You're like, wait,
I've been alone in my own thoughts for thirty minutes. Yeah,
and I didn't run out of the room screaming. I
think this is all right. It's it really especially right now.
(14:25):
I mean, good lord. You could as somebody who has
to look at the news every day and look Earth
and it's ugly eyes like every morning. It's it has
become a very major part of like my routine is
to meditate in the morning and meditate at night because
I just need to be able to like you don't
want to like, because you know I would do that
ship where you wake up people don't know Esther's body,
(14:48):
rolling to the idea of meditating, the idea of regular
self isolating. You should be on TikTok with all those moves, um,
but like no TikTok, No, it's fun, I wear then
we need one just yeah, well, I guess what who's
taking over it now? Like Oracle or fucking Microsoft at
a tuggle war? Either way, miss me with that. I'm
(15:09):
too old for it, y'all. I will do what I
used to do, upload videos to YouTube, um, Like it
doesn't work the same way, but it's really like necessary,
like for me, I can only speak for me, like
to try and start my day at neutral, because a
lot of times I can wake up and be like
what the funk happened today and going to my phone
and be like, come on, world, give me confirmation that
(15:30):
it's all going to ship. Which, yes, there are many
ways to look at it. They're also ways to feel
really good about things that are going on in the world,
Like there are moments where you can see how communities
are coming together and how other people are trying to
create solutions. But getting to like neutral, I think is
a real skill. I'm trying to cultivate more and more
right now, because it's is draining the funk out of everybody,
(15:53):
like realistically, and whether you're compartmentalizing and not actually realizing
that's happening. It's good too, even if you don't think that.
You're like I'm built for I'm built for fucking forty, Like, no,
you gotta come. Oh you guys are scared, not me.
(16:14):
I will cry in my room alone. I mean, just
give yourself some time, tell yourself. You know, we gotta
take it one day a time, because yeah, ship can
get overwhelming so damn quick. So yeah, anyone who is
still like, come at me is terrifying to me. I'm like,
I think it's come quite enough and we should not
really come. It's come quite enough. I am twenties, sub
(16:38):
you're simple, sim I mean it's really yeah, it's I
think the people who are like that though, like it's
truly the most scared people because it's it's just I
think it's easier for them to just like scream running
into the fire than to be like, Okay, it's a
fire and I'm scared and that's okay. I don't need
to like put my chest up against it. Maybe I
(17:00):
need to figure out how to protect myself a little bit,
protect our own What's what other routines you got to
to get in your own mind? Esther, like, what's your
what's your self care? What do you do? You set
a timer? You got a tape you listen to I'm
trying well. I like uh t M, which is like
just like quiet your mind and for twenty minutes, put
a little timer and then it's just one single mantra,
(17:23):
which I love. I also like very Oprah, like to
take a long bath, and like to like when I
Also I can't just like do yoga, like for some reason,
I need to like light a candle, put on Swae music,
put on like a glow, like like I really have
to set the mood because I'm I was. I used
(17:44):
to like go to a yoga class, and now I
have to like create serenity in my apartment, the same
place that I have like daily crisis and like anxiety.
So now I have to, like I mean, I feel
like I'm always putting on a play, and the play
is like okay, this is relaxed. Esther play like put
on the character right right right, be the sip some
(18:08):
Yogi t and like pretend your zen. Yeah, and then yeah,
we gotta walk before we run, you know. Uh. Finally,
I have worried that the brain can't handle the amount
of information, Like, were we supposed to know every single
problem in the entire world? No, definitely not. Are we
just supposed to know what's happening in our community. I
(18:30):
think we should probably start locally because that has the
most immediate effects. Uh, and then you know, zoom out.
But I think it's all you know, it's it's as
much as people can handle. Yeah, literally as much as
you can handle in a day without exploding. Yeah, and
just you know, realize that. But this, hopefully it's temporary
in the sense that, like anything, everything's influx and we
(18:52):
may just have to see the ugly part of the cocoon.
You're what is it a caterpillar before the butterfly comes out?
I don't know. That's my weird zen way of doing it,
so I don't scream. Uh. Finally, esther, what's a myth?
What's something people think is true that you know to
be false. Well, I have heard so many things about
(19:13):
open relationships, and it's just one of these things where
people have so many opinions like those don't work, those
do like blah blah blah, polly open. So I will
say I have explored an open relationship and it went
very well. So that's my It ended because some people
(19:33):
are like, oh, like all the dating things like oh,
if he wants to be open, then then that's not okay,
blah blah blah. So basically I was open in an
open relationship for a minute and then it ended because
we realized we just want to be with each other,
so it can and that's so nice. I wasn't ready
(19:57):
for that third act twist, the third act this was
we were monogamous, then open, then married and had a kid.
And if it wasn't for being open, like so now
I'm like you was the openness helped you sort of
realized like the value of your partner or was it
kind of like or you're like, man, I thought this
(20:17):
ship was cool, it's really not that cool, Like I'm
more built for monogamy. It was all of it. It
was like get in. It was also that and get
in your last harass sure that feelings how many people
have of like oh, I feel like I didn't get
in my last whatever before said, and damn, that's amazing.
(20:39):
I mean, I don't know how many people did unless
you're like really out there fucking like, I don't know
how many people like feel like oh yeah, I got
my last Hurrah, And I don't know, Like I feel
like it's a concept that a lot of people have.
If you look at marriage is like a fucking trapdoor,
or like, please find the one you love and then
together a bunch of people before you get married. But
(21:00):
don't be shady and be like let me see your
phone real quick and be like okay, really, okay, well
now do you as long as you're happy, don't look
at my Yeah, well I'm glad to see it's come
full story. This is like a script. It's like the
new millennial, like Sleepless in Seattle or some ship, you
know what I mean. Like it feels like like because
I look at I know a lot of people to
(21:21):
who have explored open relationships as well and people I
did not think would and have either like worked on
and be like, actually this suits me more because I
realized I am not a monogamous person and like I'm
kind of like I have a different viewpoint on relationships.
And then other people who have experimented and then realized
very quickly what they wanted. But you know, I feel like,
(21:43):
where's our script about this? You know what I mean?
Where's our modern love story about like trying to It's
trapped in COVID development. I know, isn't there like some
COVID movie that's about to actually come out that's like
leans so heavy into the pandemic. There was already a
series that like came out on Who Loue that was
like love in the time of COVID. And I'm like,
(22:03):
could you read the room less? Like, No, we didn't
at all. No, we didn't even walk into the room. Um, well,
I guess I guess we deserve it. I saw a
second of that and I was like, throwing your shoe
at the TV. The TV up, like it shouldn't have
been on. Al Right, well, let's take a quick break
(22:27):
and we'll get back to put another one of our
heroes to bed afterwards. And we're back and we were
talking and J. K Rowan was trending on Twitter and
(22:47):
I read a tweet something about it was just basically
saying like, Wow, what a career When I know when
your name is trending it's going to be about transphobia,
and it's true. J K. Rowling has really gone all
in to fully take the mask off on her turf
turf card uh and letting people know just like what
her worldview is. So all of the like things that
(23:09):
were bubbling up was this book called Troubled Blood. Troubled Blood,
which is part of the Cormer and Strike series of
detective books that she writes under a pseudonym cormeran Strike.
And isn't it a transphobic pseudonym? Like, oh, we'll get
to that. Yeah, how that now, let's just do that part.
Let's her pen name is Robert Galbraith, which many people
(23:33):
have pointed out, including our water jam McNab. That is
very similar to the name Robert Galbraith Heath who Jamie?
What is he famous for? What is he famous for it? Wait?
Let me he Oh. He was the pioneer of gay
conversion therapy who tried to cure homosexuality by implanting electrodes
into the pleasure center of the brain. Ah, that was
(23:57):
that was his thing. That's an interesting name to sort
of after she though before before you hop down j
K's back or whatever the saying is and then drag
her to Canceylvania or whatever you kids do. Uh? Is
she Charlie sipping a Charlie just just vibing on Cansylvania. Um. So,
(24:23):
she claims that the name is a mash up and
not the kind of hood Internet does of songs that
are really cool. It's a mashup of two names that
she really loved. Her quote political hero Robert Kennedy and
her childhood fantasy name, which was Ella Galbraith. That is bullshit.
I don't believe it for a second. Who has Okay,
(24:45):
I mean, I'm not trying to look I'm not trying
to shade fantasy Twitter fantasy listener, if that's your vibe,
But like, how many y'all had childhood fantasy names that
weren't like the last name of like the most time actor.
The most I had was a name I wish my
parents named me growing up, like I was like when
(25:06):
I was like, I wish I wasn't Miles, I wish
I was DJ. Did you have a name that your
parents almost named you that you think about sometimes? Yes,
my mom wanted to name me Byron. Oh that's a
good name. After Byron I almost got named Randy with
an eye, which I'm kind of glad I avoided dude Randy.
I would have been, like, I don't even I would
(25:27):
have been a totally different person. Shout out to the
homebo Randy from high school. She used to let us
smoke weed in her jeddah. But ye know this is
I don't believe. That sounds like an absolute lie to me.
Did you ever have a fake name? Esther? As a kid? So,
my middle name is ka as in k A Y
and I when I was a really young kid, I
like lied and said that it was Kazuki and like,
(25:47):
but but Esther wasn't understand hold on, come on, Kazuki.
What's going on? What I think that people are feeling, like,
what's that middle name? Kay? And it's like my name
is supposed to be esther hyphen k, so it's like
one words. When I was would be like esther k
es you K. And I think like I threw away
the K when I became an adult and I'm just like,
(26:08):
I don't need you anymore. You don't you don't know me,
and it ca just was like like being a little kid,
quizzes you're Kay, and it was all these boys picking
on me. Yeah, I mean, look, we're dumb animals and
the only way we know how to show interest is
to be mean and toxic. It's a it's an evolution.
(26:29):
I don't think we've overcome Oh you have, what's your
Starbucks name? I'll be like Jasmine, okay, y n. I
don't care how they spell. I'm like, I don't know
because I made it up, but like, I don't want
I don't want anyone yelling esther because it just kind
of sounds like my mom and it's Ester and I'm like,
(26:50):
I'll use my middle name for coffee sometimes just John,
but juice. I used to say my name was t
r F because I was a stupid little troll asshole,
and they'd be like, what's your name? I'm like dwarf
bro hated. They hated me as I as I walked
up in a motherfucking embroidered polo shirt with my name's
(27:13):
fucking embroidered on the front of it. That's just said
Miles on it. But I worked upstairs at the Laser
tag place. Anything they knew what it was. This is
how I was with my bag yass Cargo Khaki Cargo pants.
Oh god, it's laser tag dwarf. Yeah, here it comes.
It's yeah, here comes. Later they were just like pretty soon,
they're just rolled miles. They're like fuck you, and I'm like, damn,
(27:33):
it was good when people didn't put it together. But
back to j K rowing. We digress because we are
so thrown off by Ella all Braith where her name
is um. So the this whole series has been like
just this is weird thing. It's about this fucking like
detective or whatever. And this specific installment deals with the
(27:55):
cold case quote of a woman who disappeared in nineteen
seventy four and is believed to be the victim of
Dennis Creed. And this is this is where they lift
text directly from the Brooke quote A transvestite serial killer.
That's that's how she's describing this. Obviously, transvestite is terribly
derogatory and outdated, and it's just not even it's not
(28:15):
even close to talking about what a trans person is.
It's just just throw that, just throw that term away.
Don't you don't need to If you hear anybody saying,
but hey, but when you hey, when you when you
really got to show your ass, though, you're going to
dig up old ass terms. They say that. This review
from The Telegraph goes on to say, quote one wonders
(28:35):
what critics of rolling stance on trans issues will make
of a book whose moral seems to be never trust
a man in address. Okay, the pope wear address. I mean,
if we want to go there. Yeah, and his dresses
are fly, you know what I mean. It is just
so upsetting. I'm just so disappointed. And I was never
a Harry Potter person. Ever. I'm so proud of that.
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I'm one of those I'm like shittily proud. But it
was really like I was too old at the time anyway,
So it was never I was never like pushing back
against like what all of my friends were doing, like, oh,
you guys read your Harry Potter. But at the time,
I was like I was a perfect ags and I
was a little edge lord, and I was like, a
serious of unfortunate events is better like that, right, which
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is a equally shitty child take. But nickt Hive over here,
I was right, Yeah, I mean, it's the like tropes
that she's talking about. I think I mentioned it last
week with Jack. But there's a new documentary on Netflix
from a few months ago called Disclosure that like covers
all of these tropes in media really thoroughly, and I
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mean just kind of breaks down like what the like
man in an address as a danger trope represented and
it's just yeah, it's in Psycho. It's like with Mormon
Bates stressing as his mother fucking buffalo Bob, like very directly. Uh,
it's it's all so anyway to go on. You know,
(30:04):
this isn't the first time that it's happened. There was
another one in the second Cormer in Strike Book of
the Silkworm, there's a woman named Pippa who stocks detective
Strike before attempting to stab him. Uh. Strike traps this
woman in his office, then revealing her identity as a
trans woman with rolling adding in a description of her
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Adam's apple and hands. The detective then tells Pippa that
prison quote won't be fun for you, not pre op
This is this all straight hateful trash, like it's I
don't know what does she like? Beam up? She smokes
a fat bowl and she's like, all right, trying to
get in my fucking garbage mind of Robert Galbraith and right,
(30:45):
people have too much money. Yeah yeah, yeah, Like she's
just like quadrupling down on it. At this point. It's
like embarrassing for her too, because it's like, why are
you It's the creepy, creepy, creepy obsession of are like
menstruating bodies. Like it's just the fucking creepiest, weirdest thing
(31:05):
in the world too, I don't know, and it's actively harmful.
This is so gross. Yeah, so I can't believe this
story is still happening. You know what's funny though, because
you see a lot of people like come to her
defense on Twitter, and it's all like these sycophantic people
who like need work or like the first side of
blue check. Yeah, we're like, oh, we gotta get together,
(31:26):
even though like it's the totally wrong take, because who
knows in the end, I might maybe it's good to
have this person like have my back, but you know,
we've we see it in every industry. Moving on to
just another dark story. There's been a complaint being filed
in Georgia against ice Um, someone who's working in detention
facilities whistleblowing, and the complaint has gotten a lot of
(31:50):
attention because of like it talks a lot to do,
mostly with detainees being denied COVID tests and treatment when
they're showing full, like telltale signs of infection and only
being given like hyberprofin and like over the counter medicine
or just being completely just told to like like funk
off essentially um. And then another dark detail that's starting
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to come out is that in this complaint there are
allegations that detainees are being forced they're forced sterilizations occurring
in these facilities where like these detainees are being told
they might have an ovarian cyst and then they end
up with a hysterectomy um or another procedure involving their
fallopian tubes. And there's been like to the point where
(32:34):
in in this complaint there are detainees alleging that there
is a doctor that's colloquially known as the uterus collector,
because whenever this doctor is seeing a detainee, it's like
almost a guarantee that it's some kind of sterilization procedure um.
And many people like you know, I mean the unfortunately
it's mostly the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is
(32:56):
like full voice being like this is like what the
fuck is going on. Um and just another you know,
another dimension to the absolute campaign of like terror that
this administration is enacting on people that don't look like
you know, the posters from the fifties, right, Um, well,
(33:19):
where to begin Jesus, We're like on some straight up
Dr Mangela. You know, this is like eugenic shit, but
this is where we're at. Yeah, I mean, and it's
like eugenics or so is so like baked into so
much of what exists in the world already. But it's
I mean, just like this level it it it sounds
(33:43):
like a movie, the fucking Uterus Collector. Sounds like a
Quentin Tarantino character in movie, Like, yeah, really any era
to be honest, this is yeah, this is really timeless.
Can we just I think we agree that I have
no notes? Uh yeah, it's but again, this is you know,
(34:06):
it's it's really sort of indicative. And I say this
because this year is coming all over it's coming fast,
and it's one thing after the other. Like they didn't
you know, they could only give two seconds to the
fact that Trump knew about Russian bounties on U S soldiers,
or he's denigrating the families of fallen soldiers or generally
like it's just it's it's going and going and going.
(34:27):
And I think it's it's this sort of like looking
at the news that can give you this feeling of like,
holy sh it, like where do I put my attention
right now? And then? And that my big question is
has this crazy, horrible, awful things always been happening And
it's the first time that in the history that we
(34:48):
have cameras everywhere and where of social media. That's like
we're all finding out about the details, which is a
good thing. It's like it's all being exposed. But again,
this is what we know? What do we not know? Yeah?
The dark side is like, even though we know it,
the people at in power, are they going to be
compelled enough to do what's right? Because it's hard to tell,
(35:12):
you know, right, I mean, especially because there's so much
happening that the fact that a story like this horrifying
could be buried to basically the bottom of the news.
Who knows. It seems like there even with very very
pressing issues, it's only the issues that are getting a
ton of public attention that are really acted upon. Um. Yeah,
(35:36):
never reminds me of like I don't know if you
guys saw athletes A but it was the the Olympic
team's gymnastics. Oh no, that documentary doctor And there was
complaints about him, like molesting and being inappropriate for so
many years. It could have stopped with ten women and
then it more complaints. It could have stopped with twenty,
(35:56):
but they got to like five hundred and something women
were molested by him, and it took that long. So
it's like, well, yeah, they're so important to get it
early because victims just stack up. I mean, there were
already allegations of sexual abuse happening in the facilities, you know,
And I think that's where we realize how ill equipped
(36:21):
like democrats are to figure out how what what can
even be done because like there, you know, at the time,
I remember there are people trying to enter facilities and
then uh they were like you can't actually enter here,
and like, I'm a fucking congress per don't if I
you're talking about, I can't come in here, And like
that's this is such a dark, ugly dimension. On top
of the science denial, on top of the unabashed, unfettered
(36:43):
killing of black and brown, unarmed people in this cred
It's like it's it's truly a fucking all you can
eat nightmare buffet of this year. UM. But all that
to say is like, I know it's hard to hear
stories like this, and like, what can we do? At
the very least, you just just figure out how you're
gonna mobile is every single person you know to vote
to start? Yeah, this is this is the kind of
(37:04):
story that when you come across it, you're just like,
what the funk could I possibly do? But like besides vote,
And but it's on top of that, I feel like
it is also just like on the public to continue
to talk about stories like this and not just let
it be like a single day of like, wow, this
is scary, uh, and then something scary is gonna happen
(37:25):
tomorrow and then move on. But it's like stories like
this in particular, where it seems like the only thing
that UM institutions are even at least acknowledging are things
that are getting a lot of negative attention. And so
it's like unfortunate that we have to like K pop
stand mobilize every time something horrific happens. But I feel
like that is a big part of it, of like
not letting stories like this just slipped through the news cycle,
(37:49):
because then they just continue to happen. It's so yes. Uh,
these are the kinds of things that there are so
many headlines that you can miss something like this that's
as horrific as the forced sterilization of Isotaines. Um, let's
move on to another story that you know had attention
(38:11):
than didn't and then goes back and forth. Brianna Taylor
and her murder. Uh. It seems that the city of
Louisville is prepared to pay her mother twelve million dollars
in a settlement UM over the no knock warrant that
they served that ended with her killing. UM. The settlement
will be the largest paid by the City of Louisville,
(38:34):
I think before eight and a half million was the highest.
And they said there will also be uh some police
reforms as part of the settlement. I'm not sure what
those reforms are, but I do know that only one
person of the three officers involved had any kind of
real disciplinary action over this. And while I think this
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is a good first step, I think at the end
of the day, like we're all also want to see
real change happened within how this policing is occurring. I
know they're saying like, well, okay, we'll knock off the
non nor knock warrants and we'll stop when we'll wear
body cameras. But as far as I can tell, their
budgets haven't been touched. I haven't seen anything about you know,
qualified immunity is still a huge issue, uh that things
(39:18):
are going on. But um, at the very least, if
this can bring any shred of comfort to her family,
I think I think it's great. Um, But at the
very least, we know that the work still continues, because
you know, the killings have not stopped. Mm hmm. And
from what I understand, like the reason the money is
so important other than like you want to, you know,
(39:39):
take care of costs and stuff, but like the money
is important because if if the city has to pay
for these mistakes, and it's millions of millions of dollars,
then the city is going to be like, let's let's
take some precautions because we don't want to continue paying
millions of dollars in lawsuits. Like that's the goal is
for the city to make changes. And if it's because
(40:01):
of money, then I guess we'll take it. Yeah, I
wish they just didn't do the thing though, or they're like, damn,
it costs money, all right, so then the police need
their own budget just to settle. And well, the thing
is like so many of the proposed solutions that are
still going around involved giving the police more money, which
is just like fucking in. I mean, especially where we're
(40:23):
living in a city where the police budget is a
billion dollars, You're like, how could you not you know,
make it work with a billion dollars? Why are why
are there additional taxpayer money getting you more bodycams which
you will continue to disregard, like inconveniently lose footage from Well,
I think that's the thing. Like to Esther's point too,
is like they also want to make it so like
(40:44):
a cop would have to actually ensure themselves, so the
city isn't paying for this ship and be like okay,
so you got the money, or you like, who's who's
paying for this? Because not the city anymore? Uh. And
you can't just murder people, uh without any sort of
send of justice or consequence. And that's yeah. And also
(41:06):
if you live in the city of Los Angeles, be
sure to vote for measure ja coming up in the election.
We'll be talking more about that to come. We'll have
some people to talk about that, because I think that's
a really important thing locally that can be done. All right,
let's take another quick break. We'll be back to talk
tigers and Captain America Penis after this, and we're back.
(41:39):
So Carol Baskin, Um, she was on Dancing with the Stars.
I don't know if anyone saw that. Anyone saw the
paso doble. She did too. I saw like a passing
clip of it. I was like going this morning. I mean,
she apparently people were trashing her apostle doble skills said
(42:01):
it was straight trash. And she danced to Eye of
the Tiger, which was a total surprise because I don't
see how those are related to get there. Um, the
whole thing, the whole thing was just very strange. You know,
like a lot of people were like kind of being
like it's weird because like Tiger King, no one really
(42:23):
comes out of that looking like the better person, you know,
in terms of like whether you're doing like a more
whimsical form of like animal abuse or just more of
like in your face fashion killing your husband. Yes, which
is another element where people like, we just there's a
lot like sort of attached to Carol Baskin. It's not
(42:43):
the first like likely murderer that's been on Dancing with
the Stars. So yeah, like every piece of ship that
is like that needs more press has been on that show.
But so the thing that was really breathtaking, um, is
(43:04):
that during the broadcast a commercial plate and it's from
the family of Don Lewis, her missing husband. Wait what
they paid money? Ere a commercial when Carol Baskin was
on in the Tampa and Jacksonville markets, and it was
(43:25):
a few others in Florida. And I'm just gonna play
the audio from this just so you can imagine you've
just seen Carol bask into her positive She's literally Gail.
Oh my god, I'm Gail. I'm Gail. Here we go.
And this is the commercial that played. I'm Gail, one
of Don Lewis's daughters. We are a real family, and
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to us, he was daddy. I'm Linda, one of Don
Lewis's daughters, and we miss our dad. I'm Donna. I'm
Don Lewis's oldest daughter. We need to know what happened
to our father. I'm Anne Don's former assistance. All we're
asking is justice for done mysteriously disappeared in his family
(44:13):
deserves answers. They deserved justice. Do you know who did this?
Where Carol Basting was involved. Reward has been funded. You
can call it chip line at six or six zero
six five for them. Honestly, I'm like, if my dad
got Tiger disappeared, the least you could do is get
(44:35):
him a good commercial with bad audio broadcast. Yeah, it's heavy.
It's like, that's just so weird. It's like even on
his show, like Dancing with the Stars, apparently Charles Oakley
danced better than Carol basket Um. The like the idea
that a commercial then comes on with a family begging
(44:58):
for justice. Like while it's again fucking twenty fucking twenty, y'all,
and I am Dancing with the Stars with just accused murderers,
and that's where we're at, right, I feel like just there, Yeah,
like let them have their own season. Yeah they should
do like the canceled season. And it's just like male
(45:19):
comedians who have accused of like sexual assault, dance the
cha cha and then we do our murders. Because I
feel like masked Masked Singer would be a good platform
too for campul people too, because they're like, oh, look
how talented I am, But I'm dressed as a parakeet
just kidding, I'm a murderer. How do you feel? I
(45:41):
love it? Yeah, that trick. Do you know what sit
on that idea, Jamie? I think we need to We
need to call our friends over at Fox for that
is that is that where a masked singer is? Oh? Yeah,
I don't know obviously channel Wait was that thoughts? I
(46:02):
don't know. Lazy Lacey knew someone who was a body
double for the masked singer that was like, yeah, Lazy
is like former Okay, I might be misremembering this chain,
but Lazy's former roommate used to be a body double
for like the like b roll of the mass singer.
(46:23):
Because it wouldn't be like, you know, an actual like
rumor Willis wouldn't show up for the b roll. That
would be Lacey's roommate inside of a flamingo costume. It
was rumor a good singer rumor I think one or
like came close to winning. I only watched the first
two seasons. That show has been on for two years,
(46:44):
but somehow there's like nineteen seasons but Wayne Brady, yeah yeah,
he won and then uh t yeah t Kine and
his like gorgeous vibrato one. This is something like the
twenty ninth season of Dancing with the Stars, and I'm like,
all right, whatever, remember when it was Bristol Palin and
(47:07):
that was like the news They've always told what's going
to do. They've managed to always lower the bar, though,
you know, like it's like to the point where it's
gonna be the like Covington Catholic Magoteen like whoever was
speaking at the r n C. I think it's just
like the pipeline to Dancing with the Stars, Like Stormy Daniels,
has she done it? That's like you she hasn't. She
(47:31):
must be furious like that seems like or like whenever
whenever what's his name finally gets fired form like whenever
a Fox News anchor gets fired, they'll probably just trickle
down there at some point. Yeah, Roger as Roger Hales competed.
(47:52):
I believe one last bit of really important info before
we go. Yeah, Ris Evans, he plays Captain America. Correct,
that's Captain America. That's him. I always mix up my Chriss,
but I double checked that's he's always that's a joke.
You know. He's one of the chris Is that we
(48:12):
don't know which one with the muscles in the face,
because I think the most famous Chris maybe neck and
neck with Chris Pratt, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Hemsworth, there's this Chris.
These are people I went to school with. Chris Angel,
Chris Angel, mind freak. Y'all respect the mind freak please.
(48:34):
Chris Jenner. Oh there we go. Um so this Chris. Okay,
I missed the whole thing, but I know it's trending
that this this Chris specifically had he accidentally uploaded his
own dick picks to Instagram. Can someone break this down
for me? That he didn't it was on his I
(48:56):
G stories, So he was my under standing, and I
didn't have a ton of time to prepare for the
Chris Evans dick pick stories, so please don't drag me
in the comments. But he did one of those like
screen records where he was going through his photo role
and then if you like stopped at You're like, oh,
what is going on in this photo role? So there
(49:18):
was like it was like a screen share mistake where
I think maybe I don't even know if he accidentally
pulled up his photo role or he was just pulling
something up. But he has a million jillion fans who
were like going a screenshot everything, and so there was
a pretty fascinating photo role at play. There was a
(49:38):
dick pick, but there was also a lot of other
stuff where there was like there were a couple of
memes that I think he just like saved to his
phone to send to people. And there was also a
picture of Robert Pattinson standing in a sweatsuit in a
kitchen and like like as if he took it on
his phone or like from achine. I see. That's the
thing is I'm pretty sure it was not. I'm sure
(50:00):
it was a known existing photo of Robert Pattinson, which
is even weirder of like why did he save that
picture of Robert Pattinson? Are they friends with? That's the
story I find compelling. But yeah, everyone, I guess people.
I guess people wanted to see his dick. I don't.
I don't know. I'm like, I don't need to see
a guy named Chris is dick. You know, Like how
hard could that possibly be blowing up in America. It's
(50:21):
like standard by a guy from Massachusetts named Chris that
shows you a dick and then says it was an accident. Um, yeah, Ben,
They're not interested. This just happens so much. Guys are like, um,
Jamal Murray, did you guys? Hear like his he accidentally
(50:42):
posted a um blow blow job from his girlfriend who's
like a college athlete, and he's like, I'm so sorry,
but oh, I'm phenomenal. Should not watch Maybe I'm so sorry. Yeah,
but yeah. It's so sick of guys accidentally why, like,
(51:04):
like the other thing, I feel like it's like because
didn't he he like followed up this story by promoting
his like political nonprofit and being like, my dick wants
you to vote in November, sort of like, while I
have your attention, I guess vote November three, which I'm like,
I guess, but I don't know every I think. I'm
(51:26):
just very skeptical towards every time a guys like you
saw my dick by mistake. I'm like, but was it
by mistake? It could have just been I mean, I
could get very tinfoil hat about this situation. In a
New six part series on iHeart called the Evans dick
Accident or Not just a segment called this Chris Tutts,
(51:51):
how many oopsies nude dick picks from men versus like
what women? Just never accidentally posting new pictures. It's amazing
never taking a photo of my penis unless it's for
medical purposes. That's like it is my question about dick picks.
I'm like, I don't object to their existence, but I
(52:13):
just Some'm like, when you when you're really horny, why
would I don't I don't get it, but maybe I'm
just like sex is so embarrassing? Why would you want
to document it? Yeah? I went to church every Sunday,
so I don't know anything about this. The women women
don't like dick pics in general, it's a very The
(52:34):
women I know don't like tickpics, except I do know
a couple of women that do. And those women are
extremely vocal. They have an inbox like a whole Gmail
set up for shit, and they are like women who
are poster children for like, I do want your dick pic.
So if there is a woman that wants your dick pick,
they really make it. No, yeah, right, no, yeah, that's yeah.
(52:55):
It's like how guys will say they'll be like send
nudes please, like women are like, yo, let me get
that shaft shot real quick from the underside. Like there.
I think my least favorite part of this Chris Evans
story is Mark Ruffalo finding a way to insert himself,
(53:17):
which is he just replied to he just added Chris
Evans and was like, bro, while Trump is in office,
there is nothing you could possibly do to your to
embarrass yourself silver lining and you're just like, shut the
funk up, Mark Ruffle, That's that was just And then
Medicine Quote tweeted him and was like, Mark, I know
(53:39):
you have that man's phone number. Like it's just like
Mark Rufflo being like, oh, free attention by talking about
my friend's penis. Yeah. I thought he was gonna be like,
how did you get ahold of my photos? Yeah? I
mean it's like they're not bad people, but they're just
corny as hell, and it's exhausting. I'm never seen though
(54:00):
this much support for a dick pick though, like his
like even his fan accounts that like they love him.
They were like, here's the here's pictures with him and
his dog. It's okay, and then other people were like,
I love it. Was it Safari or I can't remember
if his Safari's dick pick or Meek mil one of
the two. Yeah, and like recently but no a while ago.
(54:24):
Oh yeah, that I think it was pomen all that
I felt like that that was um definitely celebrated that one. Yeah,
Safari's nudes. I think that was like, that was like
two years ago, wasn't it again? Men are just like, whoops, yea,
and here I'm over here, like that was two years ago?
(54:46):
Wasn't it Safari's nudes? I believe that was February. Let
me look at my oh manac, accidental. Chris is just
like he could be literally any hot person to me,
So ultimately I'm is like, this is a generic looking
hot person who's gotten a lot of press for dating
like comedian Jenny Slate, Jenny Slate. That's the most interesting
(55:09):
thing about him is that he dated Jenny Slate. He
dated a woman with a personality, and we're all like,
oh my god, that's interesting as someone who's from who
hails from the Commonwealth. Jamie is he is he traditionally
like Boston hot. He uh in some pictures in some
pictures he like had like when he's like relaxing, and
(55:30):
then sometimes he's wearing a little silver chain. You're like, oh,
he's definitely from Massachusetts. He's a boy from Massachusetts, but
he doesn't really present that way. I know that when
I was still writing like a clickbait for the Boston Globe. Um,
when I first got out of college, you would just
have to like do some right up every time Chris
Evans took a hot ship. And so I think I'm
(55:51):
just generally like you're like, oh, Mark Wahlberg, like, Chris
Evans pooped this morning and it was just like a
news story. Jenny Slate war shoes because she's like from
there too. I think we need new heroes and again
little poopy. You know, let's let's you know what I mean. Uh,
(56:15):
let's we'll just well I'm from Tampa, Florida. So all
we have is Carol. Well I heard she took a
poop yesterday. There we go. Yeah you had to write
about that on your block. Yeah, Esther, thank you so
much for stopping by the show today. Really appreciate you. Um,
where can people find you and follow you? Support you?
(56:35):
And what's a tweet that you like. I mean, sadly,
I'm like stepping away from Twitter because all social media
is kind of evil. But anyone who like just outwardly
blatantly shit talks Trump and doesn't care if they lose
followers is my favorite tweet. Um and Um I'm on Twitter,
(56:58):
Esther ka and and um Esther dot Seinberg on Instagram.
And I've got a new podcast coming out about um
interviewing female comedians about their birth and motherhood journey. So cool.
It's called Stand Up Mom. Anyways, that's uh, um probably
in the next couple of weeks. It all depends on
(57:20):
when my son stops teething. And uh, that's really the schedule.
We will. We're sending vibes the teething, so the teething ends.
This work out to the world. Jamie, what about you?
I can find me on Twitter at Jamie Loftus help Instagram,
(57:42):
Jamie christ Superstar. I'm gonna shout out a tweet from
Aida Osman. Um. This just made me laugh this morning.
She said, I've always wanted to be a whistleblower, but
unfortunately I don't fucking know anything. From at shut up Ada,
(58:02):
I love that. Um. You can find me on Twitter
and Instagram at Miles of Gray. Let's see some tweets
that I like. Okay, so this is a tweet from
this mom and so twe as a photo test, he said.
Her tweet says, y'all, so my child asked to where
her sunglasses to school today? Fine, I figured they were
(58:22):
going to take them off for for picture day, because
why would you need sunglasses for fall pictures? Right, y'all?
She puts a picture her little daughter's like eight or nine,
is stunting with her sunglasses on, like holding the edge
of the frames in her school photo. And it's like
the greatest energy I've ever like it. Oh my god,
(58:42):
It's like I've never had something make me smile so instantly.
So please please please check that tweet out. I'm gonna
retweet that ship, so just look at my page if
you need to find it. Another one is from at
Human Aaron. The tweet is you can say okay John
Mayor to any white dude playing guitar and it drives
them nuts. It's the greatest thing ever. Go try it,
(59:04):
very very flippant. Also, you can find me on my
other podcast while I'm at it, four twenty Day Fiance,
where I'm setting high talking about ninety day fiance with Alexander.
It's just a nice break from this world we're in
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where we post the episodes and our footnotes, thank you,
where we post our you know, a song of the day,
um and the song right now on is really good. Alright.
So this track is called Trip to Douseldorf, which, if
I memory serves correct, that is somewhere in German. But
(59:51):
this is a track from Salmon Cat and this is
you know, I'm about to say the same thing over
and over. It's got vibes, It makes you feel laid back,
It makes a big toe shoot U being your boot,
Yes it does that. But the vocals are very ethereal.
They make the transport you somewhere and be a bit
of a stress release valves. So check this track out,
Trip to Dusseldorf, and uh, I guess we'll see you.
(01:00:12):
I'll be the same. Uh And like I said, what
is this the daily Gist? Yeah, it is. It's a
production of My Heart Radio. So for more podcast check
out that our radio app or wherever you get your podcast.
Until then, we will see you later on for trends
and that will be that. Thank you guys for joining me. Uh,
peace and blessings, love for y'all and be well by change.
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I don't want to I don't want to know about it.
I don't want I don't want to talk about it.
(01:01:00):
You caught me in drilling like cann Forget jowder.
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