In this edition of Tossed Salad and Scrambled Trends, Jack and Miles discuss the Arizona governor's race, Nancy Pelosi standing down as leader of US House Democrats, Brittney Griner being moved to a Russian penal colony, Karen Bass getting elected L.A. mayor, the Red Cup Rebellion at Starbucks!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Toss
Salads and scrambled Trends. Did you know that that song
was actually performed by Kelzite grammar Um No, not written
by him though, which is what how I had filled
it in because I just wanted to believe Frasier was
a real Polly math genius. Turns out not him, not him.
(00:25):
Giant head though on that man maybe our biggest healthy, healthy, healthy,
healthy cranium. That man, that's that is uh the thing
that like makes somebody like gets you over the hump.
To be like, okay, you can be an actor, you
have to have like a head that is uniquely large.
(00:48):
But I've never seen a ranking of who which celebrities
have the biggest heads, like by proportion to their bodies. Yeah, Like,
is there like someone who's like a set like a
wardrobe person who like has had to like measure a
lot of celebrity heads for like wigs or hats, and
they're like this guy wears a fucking size fifteen fitted
Yeah whoa how you do that? I heard it was
(01:15):
Cameron Diaz has a has a very large head. For side,
he shout out, I got a big head too. You know,
shout big head, I'm getting I'm not getting acting work,
is my point. Yeah, I got a weird ass skull
in the Backmack got these parts that protrude. I don't
know if it's added brain space or whatever, but yeah, no,
that's how you should get that checked out. But Kelsey Grammar,
(01:38):
like some of the some of the people who have
big heads, like they don't you know, they don't look
like they have big heads when they're on the movie screen.
But Kelsey Grammar reads as big headed motherfucker. Um. Yeah,
and you know big head Todd and the monsters. That
dude didn't have a big head. Yeah, real tiny, he
was over compensating. Um. Alright, Well I'm jack. That's my
(02:00):
And these are some of the things that are a trending. Yeah,
Arizona is trending. Carry Lake, Carry Lake. Look, it's it's
pretty much a done deal, uh Arizona gubernatorial race. The
lake has dried up, the lake's gone dry, but that
(02:21):
hasn't stopped the maga people of Arizona from being like,
there's something wrong here. And there's just this one clip
that just tickled me because there's this maga dudes, white
guy with dreads, who's like trying to give a really
serious like he's trying to like intellectually own like the
americop accounting like board of Supervisors. This guy shows up.
(02:41):
He's the same dude who was like the number one
clip when we were first seeing that they had invaded
the PTA meetings. Mr White dreads, Yeah, Mr White dreads.
I mean, this could be his brand, but I just
want to I want you to see this where he
he really thinks, like you know, this guy rehearsed this
like stupid it before he got up there, and it
(03:01):
just it just does not It ain't hitting, buddy, But
go ahead once again, the eyes of the world are
upon Maricopa County again. Just picture a dude with a
neon green shirt on and some crusty dreadlocks saying this
for another botched election, Am I here to accuse you
(03:24):
of stealing the vote? Heavens no, for that would make
me a terrorist, wouldn't it. Let me ask you if
you took your life savings to a bank and the
teller put them in the machine, and the machine kicked
out one out of four of your bills, and the
teller said, don't worry, we'll put them in box three
(03:46):
over here, and we'll let you know how many were
in there. Later. We'll send him off to a separate
location and someone will be sure to get back to
you and tell you how much money you have. Would
you be okay with that? Isn't how it works? No,
you wouldn't. Yeah, sorry, I meant no. Oh okay, so
I thought because normally, yeah, you go to the bank
and then you deposited that you don't see that money anymore.
(04:07):
It goes somewhere I do. I demand that they give
me a video feed of where money where where that
going with? That's mine, that's mine. Don't don't mix that
up with other bills. That money that's the same. I
need those exact bills, sir, like that fucking that stupid
thing that like dominoes that do or like you can
watch your pizza get made like you know, like in
(04:28):
real time, like but where my check go? They're like
bro anyway, So it was so dumb, I believe, or
no with for two with I would become a terrorist
heavens no, Like okay, So he's talking about voting. Where
in you go in you cast your vote, it goes
(04:49):
somewhere that you don't get to keep an eye on it.
You don't get to like follow it up the blockchain
to make sure that like that, every single time that
I I voted, it's been a process of putting the
vote into a machine and then assuming it was getting counted.
That's every that is voting. That's what voting is, unless
(05:10):
it's like, well, all right, the family is going to
vote on what's for dinner tomorrow night. You know, like
that that's the only vote where you can see a
one to one result. His metaphor isn't great, but sus
dreadlocks are even worse. So I don't know what we
expected from you. Sorry, isn't he like we we need
to we need to do a dive some background on
(05:33):
this guy, because I'm pretty sure he was also at
one of those PTA meetings and like really lost his
mind on the mic theatrically um or it could just
be another dude with white dreadlocks. I mean there's probably
a good overlap between like white guys with dreadlocks and
then like leaning into the MAGA thing, because Bro, if
I get to woke on this ship, I will realize
(05:55):
my hairstyle is problematic. So I'm gonna just go kick
it over here. But I was literally just thinking about
this specific guy or the other white guy with dreadlocks
that I'm confusing this guy with, because like as the
election results were coming in and people were like, oh right,
everybody thinks they're weird, like most people are scared of them.
(06:16):
Oh you know what he Okay, this guy has also
showed up at a San Diego County This guy's just
the fucking traveling, traveling burnout San Diego County someone they
described in this one article. I said, look like some
Rastafarian hulk Hogan. And he was talking about, Oh here
(06:37):
you want to you want to hear the past performances?
All right, this is him going. It was about COVID. Yeah,
you do not get a vaccine passport, but on us,
you know, that's the population who's in control. Are the politicians?
All right? Anyway? So and also that's him at a
(07:00):
Proud Boys rally. Okay, cool um thought leaders um. That
was my Google search for Arizona white guy dreadlocks p
t A. And that's how I found that article because
of all these white dudes are dreadlocks. Then there's him
in the bottom corn that Baker Matt Baker. Yeah, but
(07:20):
that so that that was the thought I was having,
as like, the results are coming in and people were like, yeah,
so like a lot of people, the vast majority of
the country see that and they're like, oh right, this
is very strange and not a thing I'm on board with. Yeah,
I mean they're freaking I mean, look, they're scaring off
their normal people. Ever been off the norms? Yeah, well,
(07:45):
Nancy Pelosi has said you won't be seeking leadership position
in the next Congress. Good for you, Nancy. Thanks for
the memories. So what is who? Who? What? Who's coming
after Nance? I don't know, maybe hockeym Jeff Reason, Um,
we'll see. I don't look, no one's going to step
into that leadership position. Who's going to be like all right, man,
(08:08):
let's fucking let's start shutting this ship down properly. So whoever,
I mean, it'll be the next you know, Democratic standard bearer. Uh,
you know. But I will give Nancy Blosi credit. You
did you did oppose the Iraq war. You know, that's
where something that really yeah yeah, yeah, okay Nancy. Uh.
And also it was smarter than Donald Trump. I mean
(08:28):
you you you did provide him with great frustration. Uh
so I will, I will point out those things. Yeah,
there's a reason he hated her so much, not about like,
and it wasn't just because she was a woman, although
that is usually the like the criteria for Donald Trump
to hate somebody. But yeah, she I look, you were
the speaker. You did some good. I won't speak ill,
(08:51):
I'll just say thanks for taking a chill, all right. Yeah,
see that was that was a whole. That was a
high that off. Don't I was. I would look, I'd
be lying if I didn't say I was preparing for this.
You've had her, Yeah, eulogy written Brittney Grinder is trending. Yes,
(09:14):
she's been moved to a penal colony after two weeks
of not knowing what is going on. Yeah, it's sucking.
It's fucked up, man, this penal colony. One of the
people that was in Pussy Right was talking like who
had also been in a penal colony, and she was saying, like,
it's fucked up, Like you're talking sixteen hours of hard labor,
no medical treatment, they've tortured you. On top of that.
(09:35):
The member of Pussy Right was like, dude, not speaking
Russian and being in there is going to be even
fucking harder because you're not gonna understand like all the
rules and ship and they're just it's just it's it's
fucking awful. So yeah, like you just it's it's fun.
It's so fucked up to just keep reading about this
and you know this is all just like this is
probably one of the Yeah, and I'm sure the Russians
(09:57):
see this is like some kind of pond they can
use to try and force some kind of concessions. But
it's yeah, right increasingly becoming the only leverage they have,
like on the world stage because they're fucking things up
so badly. Yeah, I mean they were just recently were like,
thank you the Pentagon for not immediately pointing the finger
at us for that missile that went into Poland, although
(10:17):
that's getting controversial now like Ukraine is like it was Russia,
wasn't us. Thank you for blaming Russia or you should
be blaming Russia. Um, So that's why war is so cool, dude,
That is That's why I just kind of you're always
getting you're always getting straight talk from everybody. But I mean, again, yeah,
this is just just the timing of her arrest was
(10:38):
just so fucking you could see why they wanted to
make an example of her. Um. But I hope there's
I hope there's an actual desire from the US government
to try and figure out a way to get her out.
It does feel like the NBA needs to be doing more.
I don't know, I don't know. Ian you look on Twitter,
more people are sucking trying to cape for Kyrie and ship. Yeah,
(11:00):
you know, it's like that's fucking the energy is so misplaced,
like this is this is, this is these are these
stakes are fucking real for her, and it's you know,
being in a fucking penal colony, you know, which you
know remember in the eighties when they're called goulogs. Um,
prison is fucked up. Yeah, all right, let's take a
quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk Karen Bass, and
(11:22):
we will talk the Red Cup rebellion at Starbucks, and
we're back. Karen Bass is like the mainstreamist of mainstream Democrats.
This was not you know, I definitely voted for her.
(11:44):
This was not a race that I was like, you know,
particularly passionate about, other than that Rick Crusoe not win,
and now that he has not one. Yeah, it's it's
very funny to me. Yeah, this billionaire dipshit master the
universe who had convinced himself he became a billionaire through
just being that much smarter and therefore he's gonna run
(12:07):
for mayor and uh solve all the problems. And he
just got out there out spenter eleven to one. Yeah,
out spender eleven to one, put a hundred million of
his own dollars into the campaign for an office that
isn't that powerful, And yeah, this is where I need
(12:28):
an interview with Rick Cruso, just off his face, I mean.
But also, you know, I'll give it up to She's
the first first woman yea who the first second black
Angelino who has been mayor in the city, and a
lot of people are saying that she's been very successful
at every job and probably probably under rated how much
(12:51):
I should have been celebrating her win. But yeah, I think,
you know, at the end of the day, like as
as we've seen, was just everything that happens in the
city council like we have, so we have such real
problems that there's there are a lot of things that
feel like big victories, but the thing that would really
I think warm the hearts of people who want to
see progresses, like are you going to move away from
(13:12):
like enforcement when it comes to like solving the in
house crisis, Like are you going to help be the
face of that as the mayor? Are you just gonna
be like I don't know, well what do the CAUSEE
want to do? Right? Okay? Yeah? Yeah yeah, um, so
you know, be a voice for good although you know
you definitely she was. She was. She was playing both
sides when it came to like measure U l A
(13:32):
and stuff like I don't do an any word yeah,
and also like didn't didn't seem like on board with
solutions that involved crossing the police unions. And but you know,
in addition to her winning, which was definitely the preferable outcome,
we we also so Ugo officially one got the daily
Ze guys bounce that political strategists have been talking about
(13:57):
um and also U l A I think passed YEA.
And so it's yeah, it's good, it's it's good news,
it's great, it's great to see just yeah, just my
long mail last. Keep the fucking progress going, and uh
you know see where we end up. But yeah, good
riddance to Rick Caruso and like, oh yeah got his
(14:21):
as Oh yeah, yeah he he was crying up there,
you see him crying. Yeah yeah. I saw some great
footage of him scroll on election night, scrolling through the
results and just doing like cartoon like what in the heck? Yeah,
responses to his campaign strategist, he was definitely the like
true detective Matthew McConaughey smoking a cigarette meme looking at
(14:42):
the phone like but yeah, man, that he was like
the deputies of the real here, it's shut up, get
out of here. Up, all right, let's talk Red Cup rebellion.
So Red Cup Day at Starbucks, which I was out
of touch with, but this is apparently the day when
you go to Starbucks get a reusable red cup. Yeah,
(15:06):
if you order a holiday drink and it's limited a
dish and you know you can order more drinks with
your new red cup where you know, save the ashes
of a family member whatever. Yeah, what however you want
to use it. But it's also the busiest day, Like
it's the worst day to be a Starbucks employee, and
they've chosen the right day to actually turn out and
(15:29):
pick it. Yeah, So workers that more than one hundred
stores went on strike today, disrupting one of starbucks biggest
days of the year, and it's also their twenty fifth anniversary.
The unions are giving out their own red cup, but
instead of the Starbucks logo, it's the union logo on
an ornament being held by the grinch there, which, yeah,
(15:50):
it's just it. Look, this is all part of trying
to get Starbucks to actually begin to bargain in good faith,
because all we've seen is just just full scale fucking
union busting, attempted union busting, and it seems like, you know,
the National Labor Relations Board might begin to do something
(16:11):
about it, so we'll see. But again, I mean, I
think massive, massive shout out to those workers for organizing
and you know, making it known that you have needs,
you have demands, and they're not being met, so you know,
funk your little red cup day. Yeah, I can only
imagine the absolute miserable, fucking people who are piste off today,
(16:32):
who are like, I don't understand what's going on, Like
you don't work at Starbucks forever. I saw some tweet
like that. It's like, I'm sorry, what does that even mean? Wait?
What did this? Like people be like not understanding why
people are upset that Starbucks sucks as a job, because
like it's only a stepping stone to like another job,
Like why would do until your dad's friend lets you
(16:53):
help run his card dealership? Yeah, the fun like just
to get back on your feet because you crashed your
third outie and in six months. But yeah, I think
it's a good time to remind yourself that, yes, these
are there are real stakes for the human beings that
work around us and at a minimum, getting a living
wage and time off and things like that. It's it's
(17:16):
got to be the standard rather than this thing that
people need to fucking spend all this energy trying to
get it. Was that a true story about people voting
in that Connecticut town to like get their Starbucks to
work faster? That can't be real. Yeah, I mean it
sounds like possible because we live in such a fucking
weird timeline. Yeah, but I don't know is that Trumbull, Connecticut?
(17:40):
But I I don't know that. The only sourcing I
have is folks are sitting on social media, so it's
probably not real. But it does feel like the general
vibes of the response that I'm seeing in some in
some cases to the to the strike, like well, if
you worked faster, maybe Starbucks would pay you more. Yeah,
you know, people, we just have to let go of
(18:01):
our need for instant gratification, just societally like we have.
We really have to begin dismantling that some people aren't
like why am I waiting? This isn't convenient, right, and
stop treating every idea that isn't focused on financial growth
as not realistic or okay, jack, okay enough, I'm not
a kid. Talk enough, kid talk exactly. Let the people
(18:22):
who pay the fucking bills figure this out. That's right,
all right, Well, those are some of the things that
are trending on Thursday, November seventeen. We are back tomorrow
with the whole last episode of the show. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
the vaccine, get the flu shot, don't do nothing about
white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
(18:43):
Bye bye,
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Toss
Salads and scrambled Trends. Did you know that that song
was actually performed by Kelzite grammar Um No, not written
by him though, which is what how I had filled
it in because I just wanted to believe Frasier was
a real Polly math genius. Turns out not him, not him.
(00:25):
Giant head though on that man maybe our biggest healthy, healthy, healthy,
healthy cranium. That man, that's that is uh the thing
that like makes somebody like gets you over the hump.
To be like, okay, you can be an actor, you
have to have like a head that is uniquely large.
(00:48):
But I've never seen a ranking of who which celebrities
have the biggest heads, like by proportion to their bodies. Yeah, Like,
is there like someone who's like a set like a
wardrobe person who like has had to like measure a
lot of celebrity heads for like wigs or hats, and
they're like this guy wears a fucking size fifteen fitted
Yeah whoa how you do that? I heard it was
(01:15):
Cameron Diaz has a has a very large head. For side,
he shout out, I got a big head too. You know,
shout big head, I'm getting I'm not getting acting work,
is my point. Yeah, I got a weird ass skull
in the Backmack got these parts that protrude. I don't
know if it's added brain space or whatever, but yeah, no,
that's how you should get that checked out. But Kelsey Grammar,
(01:38):
like some of the some of the people who have
big heads, like they don't you know, they don't look
like they have big heads when they're on the movie screen.
But Kelsey Grammar reads as big headed motherfucker. Um. Yeah,
and you know big head Todd and the monsters. That
dude didn't have a big head. Yeah, real tiny, he
was over compensating. Um. Alright, Well I'm jack. That's my
(02:00):
And these are some of the things that are a trending. Yeah,
Arizona is trending. Carry Lake, Carry Lake. Look, it's it's
pretty much a done deal, uh Arizona gubernatorial race. The
lake has dried up, the lake's gone dry, but that
(02:21):
hasn't stopped the maga people of Arizona from being like,
there's something wrong here. And there's just this one clip
that just tickled me because there's this maga dudes, white
guy with dreads, who's like trying to give a really
serious like he's trying to like intellectually own like the
americop accounting like board of Supervisors. This guy shows up.
(02:41):
He's the same dude who was like the number one
clip when we were first seeing that they had invaded
the PTA meetings. Mr White dreads, Yeah, Mr White dreads.
I mean, this could be his brand, but I just
want to I want you to see this where he
he really thinks, like you know, this guy rehearsed this
like stupid it before he got up there, and it
(03:01):
just it just does not It ain't hitting, buddy, But
go ahead once again, the eyes of the world are
upon Maricopa County again. Just picture a dude with a
neon green shirt on and some crusty dreadlocks saying this
for another botched election, Am I here to accuse you
(03:24):
of stealing the vote? Heavens no, for that would make
me a terrorist, wouldn't it. Let me ask you if
you took your life savings to a bank and the
teller put them in the machine, and the machine kicked
out one out of four of your bills, and the
teller said, don't worry, we'll put them in box three
(03:46):
over here, and we'll let you know how many were
in there. Later. We'll send him off to a separate
location and someone will be sure to get back to
you and tell you how much money you have. Would
you be okay with that? Isn't how it works? No,
you wouldn't. Yeah, sorry, I meant no. Oh okay, so
I thought because normally, yeah, you go to the bank
and then you deposited that you don't see that money anymore.
(04:07):
It goes somewhere I do. I demand that they give
me a video feed of where money where where that
going with? That's mine, that's mine. Don't don't mix that
up with other bills. That money that's the same. I
need those exact bills, sir, like that fucking that stupid
thing that like dominoes that do or like you can
watch your pizza get made like you know, like in
(04:28):
real time, like but where my check go? They're like
bro anyway, So it was so dumb, I believe, or
no with for two with I would become a terrorist
heavens no, Like okay, So he's talking about voting. Where
in you go in you cast your vote, it goes
(04:49):
somewhere that you don't get to keep an eye on it.
You don't get to like follow it up the blockchain
to make sure that like that, every single time that
I I voted, it's been a process of putting the
vote into a machine and then assuming it was getting counted.
That's every that is voting. That's what voting is, unless
(05:10):
it's like, well, all right, the family is going to
vote on what's for dinner tomorrow night. You know, like
that that's the only vote where you can see a
one to one result. His metaphor isn't great, but sus
dreadlocks are even worse. So I don't know what we
expected from you. Sorry, isn't he like we we need
to we need to do a dive some background on
(05:33):
this guy, because I'm pretty sure he was also at
one of those PTA meetings and like really lost his
mind on the mic theatrically um or it could just
be another dude with white dreadlocks. I mean there's probably
a good overlap between like white guys with dreadlocks and
then like leaning into the MAGA thing, because Bro, if
I get to woke on this ship, I will realize
(05:55):
my hairstyle is problematic. So I'm gonna just go kick
it over here. But I was literally just thinking about
this specific guy or the other white guy with dreadlocks
that I'm confusing this guy with, because like as the
election results were coming in and people were like, oh right,
everybody thinks they're weird, like most people are scared of them.
(06:16):
Oh you know what he Okay, this guy has also
showed up at a San Diego County This guy's just
the fucking traveling, traveling burnout San Diego County someone they
described in this one article. I said, look like some
Rastafarian hulk Hogan. And he was talking about, Oh here
(06:37):
you want to you want to hear the past performances?
All right, this is him going. It was about COVID. Yeah,
you do not get a vaccine passport, but on us,
you know, that's the population who's in control. Are the politicians?
All right? Anyway? So and also that's him at a
(07:00):
Proud Boys rally. Okay, cool um thought leaders um. That
was my Google search for Arizona white guy dreadlocks p
t A. And that's how I found that article because
of all these white dudes are dreadlocks. Then there's him
in the bottom corn that Baker Matt Baker. Yeah, but
(07:20):
that so that that was the thought I was having,
as like, the results are coming in and people were like, yeah,
so like a lot of people, the vast majority of
the country see that and they're like, oh right, this
is very strange and not a thing I'm on board with. Yeah,
I mean they're freaking I mean, look, they're scaring off
their normal people. Ever been off the norms? Yeah, well,
(07:45):
Nancy Pelosi has said you won't be seeking leadership position
in the next Congress. Good for you, Nancy. Thanks for
the memories. So what is who? Who? What? Who's coming
after Nance? I don't know, maybe hockeym Jeff Reason, Um,
we'll see. I don't look, no one's going to step
into that leadership position. Who's going to be like all right, man,
(08:08):
let's fucking let's start shutting this ship down properly. So whoever,
I mean, it'll be the next you know, Democratic standard bearer. Uh,
you know. But I will give Nancy Blosi credit. You
did you did oppose the Iraq war. You know, that's
where something that really yeah yeah, yeah, okay Nancy. Uh.
And also it was smarter than Donald Trump. I mean
(08:28):
you you you did provide him with great frustration. Uh
so I will, I will point out those things. Yeah,
there's a reason he hated her so much, not about like,
and it wasn't just because she was a woman, although
that is usually the like the criteria for Donald Trump
to hate somebody. But yeah, she I look, you were
the speaker. You did some good. I won't speak ill,
(08:51):
I'll just say thanks for taking a chill, all right. Yeah,
see that was that was a whole. That was a
high that off. Don't I was. I would look, I'd
be lying if I didn't say I was preparing for this.
You've had her, Yeah, eulogy written Brittney Grinder is trending. Yes,
(09:14):
she's been moved to a penal colony after two weeks
of not knowing what is going on. Yeah, it's sucking.
It's fucked up, man, this penal colony. One of the
people that was in Pussy Right was talking like who
had also been in a penal colony, and she was saying, like,
it's fucked up, Like you're talking sixteen hours of hard labor,
no medical treatment, they've tortured you. On top of that.
(09:35):
The member of Pussy Right was like, dude, not speaking
Russian and being in there is going to be even
fucking harder because you're not gonna understand like all the
rules and ship and they're just it's just it's it's
fucking awful. So yeah, like you just it's it's fun.
It's so fucked up to just keep reading about this
and you know this is all just like this is
probably one of the Yeah, and I'm sure the Russians
(09:57):
see this is like some kind of pond they can
use to try and force some kind of concessions. But
it's yeah, right increasingly becoming the only leverage they have,
like on the world stage because they're fucking things up
so badly. Yeah, I mean they were just recently were like,
thank you the Pentagon for not immediately pointing the finger
at us for that missile that went into Poland, although
(10:17):
that's getting controversial now like Ukraine is like it was Russia,
wasn't us. Thank you for blaming Russia or you should
be blaming Russia. Um, So that's why war is so cool, dude,
That is That's why I just kind of you're always
getting you're always getting straight talk from everybody. But I mean, again, yeah,
this is just just the timing of her arrest was
(10:38):
just so fucking you could see why they wanted to
make an example of her. Um. But I hope there's
I hope there's an actual desire from the US government
to try and figure out a way to get her out.
It does feel like the NBA needs to be doing more.
I don't know, I don't know. Ian you look on Twitter,
more people are sucking trying to cape for Kyrie and ship. Yeah,
(11:00):
you know, it's like that's fucking the energy is so misplaced,
like this is this is, this is these are these
stakes are fucking real for her, and it's you know,
being in a fucking penal colony, you know, which you
know remember in the eighties when they're called goulogs. Um,
prison is fucked up. Yeah, all right, let's take a
quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk Karen Bass, and
(11:22):
we will talk the Red Cup rebellion at Starbucks, and
we're back. Karen Bass is like the mainstreamist of mainstream Democrats.
This was not you know, I definitely voted for her.
(11:44):
This was not a race that I was like, you know,
particularly passionate about, other than that Rick Crusoe not win,
and now that he has not one. Yeah, it's it's
very funny to me. Yeah, this billionaire dipshit master the
universe who had convinced himself he became a billionaire through
just being that much smarter and therefore he's gonna run
(12:07):
for mayor and uh solve all the problems. And he
just got out there out spenter eleven to one. Yeah,
out spender eleven to one, put a hundred million of
his own dollars into the campaign for an office that
isn't that powerful, And yeah, this is where I need
(12:28):
an interview with Rick Cruso, just off his face, I mean.
But also, you know, I'll give it up to She's
the first first woman yea who the first second black
Angelino who has been mayor in the city, and a
lot of people are saying that she's been very successful
at every job and probably probably under rated how much
(12:51):
I should have been celebrating her win. But yeah, I think,
you know, at the end of the day, like as
as we've seen, was just everything that happens in the
city council like we have, so we have such real
problems that there's there are a lot of things that
feel like big victories, but the thing that would really
I think warm the hearts of people who want to
see progresses, like are you going to move away from
(13:12):
like enforcement when it comes to like solving the in
house crisis, Like are you going to help be the
face of that as the mayor? Are you just gonna
be like I don't know, well what do the CAUSEE
want to do? Right? Okay? Yeah? Yeah yeah, um, so
you know, be a voice for good although you know
you definitely she was. She was. She was playing both
sides when it came to like measure U l A
(13:32):
and stuff like I don't do an any word yeah,
and also like didn't didn't seem like on board with
solutions that involved crossing the police unions. And but you know,
in addition to her winning, which was definitely the preferable outcome,
we we also so Ugo officially one got the daily
Ze guys bounce that political strategists have been talking about
(13:57):
um and also U l A I think passed YEA.
And so it's yeah, it's good, it's it's good news,
it's great, it's great to see just yeah, just my
long mail last. Keep the fucking progress going, and uh
you know see where we end up. But yeah, good
riddance to Rick Caruso and like, oh yeah got his
(14:21):
as Oh yeah, yeah he he was crying up there,
you see him crying. Yeah yeah. I saw some great
footage of him scroll on election night, scrolling through the
results and just doing like cartoon like what in the heck? Yeah,
responses to his campaign strategist, he was definitely the like
true detective Matthew McConaughey smoking a cigarette meme looking at
(14:42):
the phone like but yeah, man, that he was like
the deputies of the real here, it's shut up, get
out of here. Up, all right, let's talk Red Cup rebellion.
So Red Cup Day at Starbucks, which I was out
of touch with, but this is apparently the day when
you go to Starbucks get a reusable red cup. Yeah,
(15:06):
if you order a holiday drink and it's limited a
dish and you know you can order more drinks with
your new red cup where you know, save the ashes
of a family member whatever. Yeah, what however you want
to use it. But it's also the busiest day, Like
it's the worst day to be a Starbucks employee, and
they've chosen the right day to actually turn out and
(15:29):
pick it. Yeah, So workers that more than one hundred
stores went on strike today, disrupting one of starbucks biggest
days of the year, and it's also their twenty fifth anniversary.
The unions are giving out their own red cup, but
instead of the Starbucks logo, it's the union logo on
an ornament being held by the grinch there, which, yeah,
(15:50):
it's just it. Look, this is all part of trying
to get Starbucks to actually begin to bargain in good faith,
because all we've seen is just just full scale fucking
union busting, attempted union busting, and it seems like, you know,
the National Labor Relations Board might begin to do something
(16:11):
about it, so we'll see. But again, I mean, I
think massive, massive shout out to those workers for organizing
and you know, making it known that you have needs,
you have demands, and they're not being met, so you know,
funk your little red cup day. Yeah, I can only
imagine the absolute miserable, fucking people who are piste off today,
(16:32):
who are like, I don't understand what's going on, Like
you don't work at Starbucks forever. I saw some tweet
like that. It's like, I'm sorry, what does that even mean? Wait?
What did this? Like people be like not understanding why
people are upset that Starbucks sucks as a job, because
like it's only a stepping stone to like another job,
Like why would do until your dad's friend lets you
(16:53):
help run his card dealership? Yeah, the fun like just
to get back on your feet because you crashed your
third outie and in six months. But yeah, I think
it's a good time to remind yourself that, yes, these
are there are real stakes for the human beings that
work around us and at a minimum, getting a living
wage and time off and things like that. It's it's
(17:16):
got to be the standard rather than this thing that
people need to fucking spend all this energy trying to
get it. Was that a true story about people voting
in that Connecticut town to like get their Starbucks to
work faster? That can't be real. Yeah, I mean it
sounds like possible because we live in such a fucking
weird timeline. Yeah, but I don't know is that Trumbull, Connecticut?
(17:40):
But I I don't know that. The only sourcing I
have is folks are sitting on social media, so it's
probably not real. But it does feel like the general
vibes of the response that I'm seeing in some in
some cases to the to the strike, like well, if
you worked faster, maybe Starbucks would pay you more. Yeah,
you know, people, we just have to let go of
(18:01):
our need for instant gratification, just societally like we have.
We really have to begin dismantling that some people aren't
like why am I waiting? This isn't convenient, right, and
stop treating every idea that isn't focused on financial growth
as not realistic or okay, jack, okay enough, I'm not
a kid. Talk enough, kid talk exactly. Let the people
(18:22):
who pay the fucking bills figure this out. That's right,
all right, Well, those are some of the things that
are trending on Thursday, November seventeen. We are back tomorrow
with the whole last episode of the show. Until then,
be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
the vaccine, get the flu shot, don't do nothing about
white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
(18:43):
Bye bye,
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