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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh These are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
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the Weekly Zeitgeist. We're fur to be joined in our
third seats by a very funny stand up comedian, writer
poet who you know from such places as TV, The
Harvard Review, and her amazing podcast In Your Hands. It's
one of their new favorite guests on this show. It
is the hilarious and talented Lizzie Cooper Mad Oh my god,
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I lost my voice just that. In your name. Thank you,
thank you, welcome back, welcome back, thank you. It's nothing.
It's short of a thrill to be here. You honor
us with such a description. What what sort of adventures
have your listeners been taking you on? Oh my god,
it's it has been truly wild. I'm trying to even
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think of where we left off. I was supposed to
take the first job that I got on Craigslist gigs section.
I applied to be a hair model. I have very
long hair, and I said I'll be a hair model
for this fledgling beautician or Styla's who wants to try
you know, the pixie cut. Oh, oh my god, you
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were about to let this person hit you with the
pixie If they responded first, I was gonna I would
have Wow, Lizzy. I applied to work as a Halloween
performer on someone's front lawn. They specified you had to
be fun spooky, so I was trying to figure out
where is the line. Yeah, because they're not just like
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disturbing spook, right, Just don't go up to people and
be like I killed your brother. That's regular spooky going
up to a little kid like Earth won't be here
when you're my age, please please don't what not telling
the truth exactly like the adult Greta Thunberg. Yeah, there
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is a There was a street or a house of
the street for me that did a climate based Halloween
themed like decoration, which I was like, yeah, hell yeah.
And then they also had a Rick Carusoe yard sign.
Rick Cruso, the billionaire mall magnate who's supposed to, uh,
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you know, solve all of l A's problems. We don't
have the results that he's making. It snow at the
grove right exactly about climate what is something from your
search history? Okay, well I was gonna say best seats
so Fi Stadium, but I feel like that's just more
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of us talking about the same. But I also had
recently googled Irish girls names, and that was because I
was panicking at a show where I knew they were
filming the sets. And I've been doing a joke where
I say a real person's name, and I thought maybe
I should come up with a different name. But it's
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just such a funny name to me. And I was
in the back trying to come up with a fake name.
And the problem with that stuff is it's the real
example is always funnier, just like not possible, Like I
wish I could. I'll share offline with you guys the
name that I that is the true name of this
real person. But I was like in the back being like,
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I can't say sirsha Everyone knows that name as Sir Sharonian,
like I mean, and these are just you know what,
I feel like, that's a shift on succession. We're hearing that,
you know what is it? But that is another iconic one, right,
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kind of a cool name. Yeah, this is more of
like a the joke I do is I call her
a white girl named after a pony, and I feel
like I feel like sand is not a pony name.
You know, is running that that that whole operation for sure.
I feel like you can't go wrong with a Mary
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to start it off, like Mary Sheila. Oh yeah, maybe
a two partner name like Mary Sheilah. Yeah, maybe I
can make up a whole hands big name with the
Irish last name. It's funny how it's true, Like truth
in comedy is always like the thing you like, one
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of the first things you really learn when you're getting
into comedy. And yeah, like to your point, even if
you tried to engineer it, the fact, like you know,
it's just funnier because it's coming from the absolute like
well of truth and that probably translates immediately to the
didn't even know They're like, was that the person's real name?
You think? It just like the delivery and everything it
comes together beautiful. How did it go? What would you
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come up with? And did did it hit as hard
with the fake name in there? I just said her
real name. It's like, you know what, And it's like
a thing where I don't think that it's they're going
to put that part out one it'll be fine, and
you know what, if that girl finds out, I'd honestly
be shocked. But I just I think sometimes once in comedy,
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when it's like there's something about a show that's not
being filmed, where you go like, I mean, I'm technically
speaking into a microphone to an audience. This is not private,
but it feels different when you're filming and like posting
something online and all that feels like a different level.
I don't know, but yeah, the real, the real example
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is always the funniest. Yeah, what is something shanning you
think is overrated? Okay? I think I think smooth ageless
skin is overrated, all right. And the reason I'm saying
this is because I am being bombarded. I am being
harassed constantly seven with like every product that's like, don't
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you want to get rid of your nasty crater old
woman's skin? And I'm like, whoa Jesus, what is happening?
And it's like Black Friday is coming up. I don't
know what it is, really, but it feels like it
feels like every year now it's like getting longer. It
used to be like a day, Now it's a week
now this year, it feels like it's a year long event,
and I'm getting so many Black Friday deals for like
all these like lasers and things, and I'm just like,
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you know what, Like I'm I'm annoyed. I'm annoyed about it.
Leave me alone. I don't care. I'm about to take
a knife to my face and give myself the deep
lines and just be like, look, look, it's fine, you know,
Like I'm I'm so happy. Yeah, it's okay. Because it's
a little intense and like we're all in the same
age group. Are are you all getting harassed on social
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media with this stuff? I see I see increased like
men's in care things pop up. But yeah, I'm I
don't know. I think again. I just try and ignore
as many ads as possible unless it's like a gigantic
blanket I can wear, and the I'm like, well, hold on,
what's this. I'm in the market for that. I don't
need things. It's like your pores look like the surface
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of the moon, and I'm like, what the fun I'm like, okay, yeah,
Like I like, I want a blanket. I'll buy so
many blankets. I'll buy a blanket from my face, but like,
stop sending me these ads where it's like, we know
you're dying, don't look out sexy and tire the fact
that you're dying from anyone else. I'm like, I think
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the fact that I'm dying is cool, Okay, Like I'm
I think it's relatable that we're all aging and I
love it, like I love my face. Right, Yeah, I
think it's just funked up when the marketing is like, hey,
you should be in denial about your mortality because that's
the most unhealthy ship. Because if the second you go
down that road of like, oh, I can prevent like
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having to be visited by my own mortality. When I
look in the mirror, I feel like that's where, you know,
you can get a little bit too invested in that.
So yeah, you know, when I say that as somebody
with basically no wrinkles, maybe because the genetics have blessed me.
So for all y'all out there with the prune skin,
you know, I feel for y'all. Miles sponsored by one
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of these firms. But I do have to say on
his behalf that he's okay. Yeah, so it's not it's
not total Paola. Yeah, but I do inject human growth
hormone directly into my the corner something. He has a
proprietary serum that he's trying to push. You're one of
that Black Friday, and I mean, like, I'm sure you
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don't feel good, you know, knowing that you're just a
rotting corpse every day, right, So yeah, I don't know.
I think it's kind of fun. Like I've always felt
like this body, Like I've always felt like, oh man,
I can't wait to just be like an ethereal gas again.
Like you know, like my body has always kind of
just been like clearly like designed to keep me grounded.
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And I'm a Pisces scorpion moon. Oh listen, I want
to float. I want to be in the sky. So
like I kind of think part of our human journey
and like the fact that we are slowly decaying and
eventually going to die. Like I think that's the coolest
part about life. It's like it's enjoyed this, this is
fun and at the end we get this this like
ultimate release, this like cool transformation, this level up. Like
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you know, I'm not trying to Heaven's gate it, but
you know, when when organically op Yeah, but if it
organically happens to me, or you know, or if I
see it happening slowly, I'm not going to fight it.
So like you know, lasers are cool, but like lasers
that are meant to shame me, I don't think lasers
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should shame. Okay, I don't think we should be engaging
in shame, especially not revolving around appearance, and especially when
you know the comment hail Bob is about to do
another periheli in by the earth in which catch it
this time? Yeah, well, don't don't miss your chance this
time mess it up like those dudes are falling Marshall
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apple White did Did they mess it out? Miles or
are they partying right now? On the tail of what's
something you think is underrated? Okay? Staying on theme, Black
Friday is overrated? Black Christmas is underrated? Are y'all fans
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of the horror movie Black Christmas? I am not I
am not not a fan. I just have not gotten
into it. But I have heard like that. Then than
people remember no, I never heard of this. Oh okay,
so whoa and I went to school with her? Okay,
go on, well there's the there there's a remake that
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came out a few years ago, but the original one,
I think came out in nineteen seventy four, and it's
a Christmas not themed but like it's a horror movie
that takes place during Christmas break on a college campus.
And one of the reasons why it is iconic and
underrated to me is that the whole like trope of
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the final girl in horror movies, like we think it
started with Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween, which came out
right after Black Christmas, but this movie Black Christmas was
actually the first to include a final girl, the one
who survives at the very end. But unlike the trope
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where she's like super chaste and virginal, this character, Jess
is we know she's sexual because she's pregnant and she's
getting an abortion, but she's not like punished for it.
In fact, like her boyfriend, who's a jerk about it,
ends up getting slashed spoiler. And it was just a
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really fascinating, like I don't know, to me see kind
of what could have been. But it was the same
director who went on to make a Christmas story, so
clearly he loves Christmas. Another dark take. He was like,
oh too, dark and a Christmas story. Okay, Okay, Bob Clark,
there's there's your double feature and it is legit scary.
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It is very very spooky scary. I was like, wow,
what didn't interesting storyline with this character? Like it's going
against most of like American trumps, like a Canadian slasher film. Okay,
I like that. I see I see it now. Yeah,
that's wild that the slasher genre like started in a
very progressive place and then they're like, nah, well we'll
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make it basically a metaphor for puritan values. Right, that's wild.
I think there's another Christmas horror movie that I've seen
billboards for with a Santa. That's the one with the
guy from David Harbor. David Harbor. Yeah, yeah, what the
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fund is that one Harbor Santa movie? Violent Night Night
Kill Santa. Let's just what my kids need to see.
And I think Hallmark should really kind of get in
on this, you know, the holiday horror genre. Really it's
worth it. I don't. I don't see that. I like
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somebody who watches so much Hallmark movies, I'm like, can
we spice it up a little, because some motherfucker gets
stabbed in this movie? Please, just to kind of keep
things going. They have one that's like there's a series
of films that's sort of like a murder mystery one
and like one takes place during the holidays, but they
don't they haven't leaned into that. I mean, I get
it because Hallmark, like I'm pretty sure they have this
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thing where like you can't even have They used to
say you can't have magic ship like be the inciting
incident in it because Christians, you know, I don't like that.
Just keep it, keep it, keep it, you know, keep it,
you know, nice and above board with God. Mhmm, yeah,
that would be my main objection. So I'm glad to
see that that rule is being I think it is
rolled back. But there was a while where like people
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like it's like in talking with people who make them,
they're like, yeah, you can't pitch Hallmarket thing where like
like magic is like the main point of something occurring
in this Christmas story or else they'll be like mad, no, no,
this is this is Satan Satan ship, right, although maybe
maybe like they're just wrong, and it would it would
push things like like nobody thought you should include religion
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in your horror movies until the Exorcist. So just say, Christmas,
the holidays are a lot darker than people have depict
them in their shows. So Christener you a big horror
slash slasher slash slasher fan. I sound like it, but
not especially. I have like some select favorites, and black
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Christmas is one of them. And yeah, I'm just thinking,
if we're gonna, if we're gonna have to have a
you know, two month long Christmas season, now holiday season. Now,
let's spice up to Avatar, to the way of the
Water season in my household. All right, let's take a
quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back,
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and knives are out for Trump and the Republican Party.
They're they're just looking for their like, well, it can't
be our politics. The people rejected, So what do we
What do we do here? What do we him? You
get mad at him? Right now? They're choosing the one
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person that they absolutely can't get rid of. I'm sure
that I have to assume this is a this is
a passing fad. As soon as they look at the
numbers again, they'll be like, oh wait, our Trump guy.
But the problem is, right, this is like the one
time where they absolutely need to find something different because
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with Trump at the ticket, it's been consecutive elections where
they're just losing. Yeah, Like it's it's been a downward
trend every since and like but it's funny, like they
always there there's a lot of outrage from like mainstream
Republican figures, but like each time there's some ship like
this the Ukraine call meddling with the d o J
attempted election theft, there are always like a few more
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Republicans are like, oh, I wouldn't do that, but then
they don't do anything. They get too scared, and next thing,
you know, they realize, oh, that's right, this dude is
my daddy now. And last week a lot of the
media outlets on the right came for him. In the
National Review, the headline was Trump is a bust for Republicans. Okay, okay,
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and then uh going to Ruper Murdach, what's he doing
over there? Well, the most of the channels are like,
I don't know about this guy. On the New York Post,
the cover on Thursday showed Trump as trumpty dumpty don
who couldn't build a wall, had a great fall. Can
all the GOP's men put the party back together again. Uh,
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and they're all kind of getting they're all using Trump
as this excuse, but they let them run that entire title.
I mean, it's a New York Post like whenever it's
like pun filled, they're like, man, fuck whatever, both of
the standards are, get that pun in there. But you know,
like they kind of tried to stop him in sen
like where that first, like this guy is gonna be bad,
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only to just realize like that, them constantly feeding the
base like nativist bullshit in the eight years prior is
like what made Trump absolutely irresistible to their voters. So
they just got out the way and we're like amazed
at what happened, and they excuse every single funk up
because they really saw this guy as like the way
to like that thing we talked about last week when
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Nick Fuentez like this, when right wing extremist time, like
we just need a dictatorship. Man, doesn't matter how many
more of them that there are than us. Well, we
think we need to get them to be get in
line with like our rules, and that's it. Many people
saw Trump as being like, oh, this guy can just
get this, Like if we just stay behind him, we
might get to that place. So it's just kind of like,
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I don't know if there's really like we always say,
there's no hypocrisy with like the base or the politicians
on the right, because you know, like they know that
this is all about just getting to the end game
of just own the Libs fully and just having just
give us absolute power and we'll look away at every
single thing. But I don't know, it's just there. They
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keep trying to do this thing where they act like, oh,
here we go, they're gonna dump them, but they've already
like the toothpastes out the two Yeah, yeah, but they
I mean, people were pointing out the New York Post
has turned on Trump before, and everyone like it's the
end for Trump. And then someone's like, actually, they we
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we all said that four years ago, like that this
is you'll do this all the time. This is exactly Yeah,
you didn't want him in the first place, Like the
mainstream of the party didn't want him in the first place,
and we're we're supporting Jeb Bush and other you know,
establishment tickets. And then they realized quickly when the primary
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started that they couldn't beat him, and so they go,
they go back to it. It's just there's not a
great option. I mean, DeSantis seems to be the option
that the like there maybe their best option, their best
alternative to this point, but I I can't picture a
version of this playing out where de Santi's beats Trump.
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He's just too much more entertaining. And there is he's
a person who has a death cult, like we haven't
had that it ever, like a large scale death cult
in America. Like that's it's pretty wild. But yeah, it's like,
but how do you get but they're kind of maxed
out their membership on the death cult and now they're like, fuck,
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if this is the best we can do, and jerrymandering
is like only barely getting us like to even footing,
then what Because I think that's the thing that a
lot of you know, like the consultant and strategy class
of the party you're thinking about, like I don't know
how the funk you're gonna win, like like you can
only do so much without trying to figure out. Maybe
someone else energizes more people to come back, and we'll
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see what happens. But I think the thing that really
said Trump off, especially last week because he lost it,
like really in an interesting way. The New York Post,
I think, on Friday posted this headline with him and
his family after he won re election. It says, the
future run the future. Yes, run the future. Okay, mask
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off And he's also mask off like future with his
racism and just heinousness. But Donald Trump went out and
then got on truth social and like email blasted everybody
talking about how like I made this motherfucker When he
said he was dying in the balls, I endorsed him.
Then he said this, this is really interesting quote. I
was all in for Ron and he beat Gillham. But
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after the race, when votes were being stolen by the
corrupt election process in Browood County and Ron was going
down ten thousand votes today along with now Senator Rick Scott,
I sent in the FBI and the U S attorneys,
and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them
running out of the votes necessary to win. I stepped
this election from being stolen. Hold on, sir, what you said?
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Who to do? What a lot of people are like,
is this for real? Did he really? Was? He already
sucking with the like these mid terms, and I think
a lot of people are like. It most likely is
a reference to when then Florida Attorney General Pam bond
I like took into listen to some bullshit claims was
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looking into some ship about voter fraud and they didn't
find ship, and they kept it moving because I think
most people have noticed we usually have here most of
the ship that happens like in real time with this guy,
It just depends on how much of it gets reported
or not. And not many people found anything that, you know,
that seemed consistent with what he just said. But again,
I think shows his level of like, like he's really
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doing like I made you is the vibe right now.
The only vision is empowers because I committed crimes to
get him there easy. But that's what's so good about
having the Republicans tied to somebody who is any any
time he's under attack or like any something that he
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perceives as humiliating, which is almost everything, because that's just
like how his brain work, Like anytime that's happening, he
is like a person who's drowning and just pulling everyone
in with him, just like fuck you on like and
we'll keep doing that until he's on a pile of
bodies like just it's like watching a magician bomb. Yeah,
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you did not see me switched the quarter into my
other hand. When we did, we did. What the funk man?
That wasn't magic? Okay? What about this guy? Like this
guy was loving it a minute ago? To ask him
what happened? He sent me up Actually, motherfucker, get up here.
Let's all boo him. What? But yeah, I think then
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he went on and came after the governor like Glenn
Unken and was like being like, I don't know, maybe
he's Asian. It sounds Asian to me. What kind of
last name is young Ken? Like that's the I'm not joking.
That was the level of shit talking he was at today.
It was just being like, this dude's last name sounds Asian.
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This is what he said, young kid, and parenthetical that's
an interesting take. Sounds Chinese, doesn't it? What are you doing?
I think we should just isolate the side that Lizzie
just said and that should be our only analysis of
It's giving me a panic Like the idea of going
back to it gives me a panic attack. Well, this
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is the thing, right, I think most people have seen
all these MAGA candidates that were running to be elected.
The ones that were re elected is one thing, But
the people who are trying to unseat incumbents incumbents were
not fucking winning, and that's a big thing that they're like, Dude,
the MAGA ship is not as potent as it used
to be. And I think that's that's the one thing
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that I will take as an indication of perhaps his
stock somewhat dwindling. Is that, like it just like they
wasn't quite getting over the line with some of these extremists.
Like at a certain point some people are like, yeah,
like Donald Trump's like, but also like a lot of
this ship is it doesn't sound like solution based at all.
It sounds like, you know, let's just restrict people's access
to like healthcare or privatize social curity and things like that.
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So I don't know, but you'd feel like if there
was that sort of same energy behind it, that would
have been borne out a little bit in the election results.
So I think it's just merely like because the brand
is just so it's just not as it's losing its
appeal somewhat. Yeah, I feel like it's very muddy, Like
like you said, it's on the one hand, it does
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seem like the Maggie candidates didn't do well, and but
like all of the analysis of the midterm elections and
like them being the opposite of what was predicted by
the mainstream media, a lot of it is like, well,
there is a candidate quality issue and Trump maybe like
Trump's appeal maybe dwindling, but like that's hard to prove
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because he wasn't like on the ticket, you know, like
he wasn't no, nobody was actually voting for him, and
so it just muddies what seems like there are some
very straightforward like policy takeaways that should be the thing
that every media outlet is pointing out, pointing to, and
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but but they are these like straightforward policy takeaways that
don't work with the mainstream narrative because they're too simple
and straightforward. And like it does feel like this moment
feels go ahead. I was just gonna say, I love
that the idea of a candidate quality check for Republicans,
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Like what that would be like, is there a crease
in your doctors check their teeth and gum line okay
like a horse, like okay, good, But this moment just
feels very clarifying to me, like it feels like, you know,
there's a bunch of progressive energy at the point, like
from voters that is laid bare in an election that
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the mainstream media was kind of distracted into thinking was
going in a different direction, so they didn't really have
their messaging ready for like what was going to happen
if there was this kind of progressive energy that turned out,
And instead of like covering the progressive policies that are
resonating with people that have resonated with people for a
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long time, they're just like muddying everything with this like
are people tired of Trump? Like what's Trump gonna say?
Like just this like personality contest, this like sports media
bullshit take of just like who's got the better like
who who's the better horse? Essentially, The New York Times
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literally like the day after the election was like, all right,
here's who we like for the Democratic presidency. If Biden
drops out, they'll be shocked to know the people they
liked Harris Buddha Jedge where we're like all the mainstream
centrist Democrats and the people they weren't feeling like literally
there was a category that was like here's who do
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Here's who we like, and then a category I'm just
not feeling it. And it was like the first two
were Bernie Sanders and AOC. We're like number one and
two of like just not feeling just not feeling once
to old once too. You think J. B. Pritsker was
in the middle section of that. Yeah, that's not a
lot of people are just like, just get the just
get these big lads out there, right, Yeah, the big,
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big relatable lads out there, like in the Rush belt.
But there's like a very straightforward story to tell here
like that. So yeah, there has a lot of there
has been a lot of support for progressive policies that
performed incredibly well, and they performed incredibly well in like
big elections like Pennsylvania with Shapiro and Fetterman just you know,
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running populist campaigns that are focused on giving people economic
reforms that help their lives, like that is for some
reason seen as like this fringe populist thing, but it works.
And then there are these more conservative, demo cratic statewide
campaigns in North Carolina and Iowa that had so Fetterman
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Shapiro both ran ahead of how Joe Biden did in
traditionally Republican parts of the state. That's always what Democrats are, like,
the thing that we got to figure out is how
we get those like those blue collar workers to start
voting Democrat again. So they have their answer that that's it,
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like that just run on populist, progressive economic policies that
we we saw that work. And when they didn't do
that in state wide campaigns in North Carolina and Iowa,
they ran behind Joe Biden. So it's like a very
very straightforward lesson and that feels like good news, right,
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they have a very clear answer following this election. The
bad news is they've had a very clear answer before
this and ignore the funk out of it, But how
do we do economic populism without really affecting the bottom
line a lot of companies? And I think that's the like,
that's this fucking weird cliff that the Democrats are always
like standing over there, like, I mean, it's a winning
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message when you speak directly to people's lived experiences and say,
I know you're getting fucked over by like rising prices
and the greed of companies. I know that. Like when
you go that route, people are like wait what and
suddenly like you're saying like rural counties start going back
towards Democrats because they're speaking something that is like very straightforward.
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Every politician needs to start dressing like Aaron Brockovich. Yes,
why not. I would love to see that. But I mean,
like that's that's what's sort of like so infuriating. Is that,
like it's so simple. It's like you just you get
your you get your hymnal from your donors, and then
you have to sing the songs that they say. Yeah,
(30:51):
like you see it with with the messaging around inflation
like that was supposed to swing the whole election, and
it didn't really because people understood like all of the
stuff about like well Biden giving money to you the
voter is what caused this pain. This inflation like that
(31:12):
it resonated something. It was like a fifty fifty split
basically on inflation, but it wasn't like the thing that
swung the election. And by the way, the like pre
electoral like analysis that they got was from Larry Summers,
who may remember as the president of Harvard, who was
like flying on the Lolite express that we covered when
we're talking about how Harvard. Yeah, it's basically a bastion
(31:37):
of wealth protectionism and not liberal intellectualism. But anyways, like
the the big one is just like they're all these
very popular progressive policies that we keep seeing, like we
making abortionate illegal is wildly unpopular, and that does seem
to be the one that the mainstream media is letting
it Like they're letting that message in that Okay, the
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you know what, what the extremist Republican position and action
now on abortion is cost them this election, But they're
not like covering the fact that, like gun control is popular,
and like voters represented that white supremacy is unpopular, and
voters represented that in some places, people don't think healthcare
(32:23):
should bankrupt you. Yeah, yeah, and like that's another wild
thing to just I just wanted to talk about all
the attacks that teachers are under and like critical race
theory and all this culture war bullshit. There were a
lot of bills that passed that were increasing funding to
public schools. So despite all that, like you weren't like
despite me, like no, we gotta we gotta cut this
ship off and privatize everything. Most people are like no, no, no,
(32:46):
we like that, take take that more money for them. Yeah,
pro choice measures swept at the ballot box. Progressives one
with ballot measures that support policies like raising the minimum
wage and taxing the rich. Just everywhere across the country,
a bunch of like progressive House candidates one, but like
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aren't being covered summarily in Pennsylvania, Delia Ramirez in Illinois.
There's like a bunch of these Greg Cassar in Texas,
like a you know, these populous candidates are winning in Texas.
It seems like these are the surprising results that they
would cover if they didn't have some other agenda. I
(33:28):
can't quite put my finger on it right pro collective
bargaining measures one, legalized cannabis one. Like measures for rent
control one everywhere They fucking one in Orange County, Florida,
like rent control. Rent control is popular in Florida. You
think that would be like the one of the big takeaways.
(33:52):
It's like, help people because they're being harmed by massive corporations,
and like they it's a very straightforward message that they
seem to be willfully fucking up at places are they
are because again, it's a consolidation of our media and everything,
and it's all being ran by a very specific kind
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of person in a very specific socio economic situation with
a very specific perspective. And that's I mean, honestly, that's
that's why I like people like candidates who aren't his
tethered to like the old school like political machine of
using corporate dollars and things like that, are speaking more
freely than the ones that are like born from it.
(34:33):
And that's I think that's the balancing act of d
n C is also probably gonna look at too. It's like, dude,
you get too many of these populaces in here. We're
like we're like a couple. You know. Congress is away
from like real like actually delivering for people at the
expense of like profits. And I think that's what will
be interesting too, because there's a lot of analysis about
how there was a lot of success in the suburbs
(34:54):
and suburban voters going to Trump, but a lot of
suburban voters tend to be like upper addle middle class
and maybe look at the economy way different than these
other people, these other voters that the Democrats are also
trying to court, which are like like workers laborers who
are like looking at how like the economy is affecting
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them and have a like maybe probably a more populist
agenda than the people in the suburbs. So how are
they going to balance all those things? And you feel
like they're gonna probably just shy away from going more populous.
But I don't know. I mean, maybe they found a
way to be like we can do a little bit
of that stuff while still like wreaking and or generating
massive money and not completely just you know, knee capping
(35:38):
in industry because we decided people need free medicine or
some wacky ship like that. Does populist just mean like
anti corporate and like humanitarian like like that. It feels
like it's just like, yeah, I don't, I don't know.
It's people, you mean populous interchangeably to refer to Trump
and then policies of like rent control. It's just it's
(36:00):
just appeal to normal people. That's all it is. It's
just normal. So that's all subjective, right, But I think
what Trump he was being like as an outsider in sixteen,
it was great popes, like we got to get these
like nobody's making money. These prescription drugs are way too
like he did. He was talking to a lot a
(36:20):
lot of that ship. And so but then got in,
I was like, I'm broke and I have bills. Y'all
have a friend, a friend who like works in finance
from like you know, a friend that I went to
school with and he heard our podcast and was like, oh,
I had no idea you were so populist. And I
(36:42):
was like, what does that mean? Yeah? Is that? I
think that is like a slur in that realm, right,
is like the idea that well, you're just saying what
people want to hear, and it's like, well, they wanted
to hear it because they're not stupid and it helps
them and there are like clear ways that people can
(37:05):
help themselves through politics that fucking everyone else is ignoring,
like in the mainstream media. Right. Yes, it really is
like that thing where like, yeah, you're I don't know
how to put it. Like I feel like back in
the day, like I would I would be wanted to
date somebody and then like are you like you know,
(37:25):
they tell me like I'm not happy in the relationship.
I was like, oh, that's that's messed up, and they
what's happening, Oh they don't do this and don't go,
oh that's that's messed up. Then you get a call
Hey man, why are you talking shit to me? Like
talking about me tomorrow to my girlfriend was like what
I just They literally just said what was going on?
And I agreed. I wasn't generating some other narrative. You're
(37:46):
just getting angry at the fact that objectively the situation
is not good and someone describing it is somehow Now
this like underhanded thing rather than for like the parties
in power understanding their messages aren't resonating. The status quo
is absolute violence in death, and that's how most people
see it. So you come out here talking that same thing,
(38:08):
they go, oh, that's death and destruct that's death and destruction. Yeah,
that's not solutions like someone who's and I think that's
all it is. People just want you to come and
be like, here's the problem. Here's the solution, Republicans, right now,
just go here's the fucking problem. You' all right, Yeah,
it's just well, then the New York Times doesn't have
a single like they have a columnist who's willing to
say fucking everything. They have a columnist who's willing to
(38:31):
be like being a traditional Catholic is actually punk rock
and you know, like just the wildest ship, like loving
the pope is the most punk rock thing you can
do today, and they don't have somebody who's willing to
be like all right, so like Democratic voters like came
out in force voted for Democrats and said that they're
(38:54):
really frustrated, like an ex oponent, they said, they're really
frustrated with the Democrat like with Joe Biden. So like
there's a clear message here. They vote for, you know,
progressive policies and they're frustrated with the existing thing. Like
what wouldn't it suggest that, like it would make sense
for the Democratic Party to like shift to more progressive
(39:14):
policies and like being more straightforwardly like helpful to people
and humanitarian. Um, they don't have a single columnist who
make who makes that argument. Is pretty well, just thinking
about how much is brewing in Florida right now? Is
does Trump still live there? Oh yeah, I think he
refuses to even leave when a tropical storm is coming.
(39:36):
As of the last week, I'll nucas, let's take a
quick break, we'll be right back, and we're back. And
the Republicans, y'all, I mean, you know, for all the
(39:58):
all the chaos that's going around, they really they should
just change their name to the fucking Knife Party at
this point, because the republic can'ts yeah about that fucking
windmill on them, Matt, please polsterize them right there with
that one. Yeah, but like like red Graves alright, Vanessa Redgrave, Yeah,
(40:27):
all right, right now, the Party of Personal Personal Responsibility
wants fuck all to do with any concept of responsibility
to do with the mid terms, Although it should be
noted that the Republicans look like they will have around
a two seat majority in the House with current projections.
There's still stuff that's up in the air, but that
(40:49):
sort of seems like where things are gonna land. And
also it should be noted that over the weekend the
Democrats were able to you know, solidify the majority in
the Senate. Would the run being just a little bit
of a one just a little icing on top of
the cherry, if that's how I don't think. But let's
check in with some of the saltier beings on the right.
(41:11):
First up, Sarah Palin. She is just just going out
the the party itself for letting her be herself. She
put this i G post that this Daily Beast or
this article The Independent describes as in a conspiracy. In
instagram post, miss Palin blamed the quote Kaca Mami ranked
choice voting system Senator Lisa Murkowski and the quote dark
(41:34):
dysfunctional GOP machine after she was seemingly trounced by Democrat
Mary Poltola for a second time in three months. Shout
out to Mary. Uh goes on to say, quote, this
is from Sarah Palin. The GOP establishment deserves losses until
it's willing to fight for what is right. So we
have somebody saying they didn't let me be maga enough,
and they're like, that was the problem. They were trying
(41:57):
to they were trying to unmaga you. But go off, Sarah.
It's fine. It's just I keep forgetting she exists. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I think right because when she comes back there like,
oh my god, you throw back meme. All right, I
guess we'll see what happens. Chris Christie, who on a
(42:19):
given day could have a take that makes him sound
like Don Junior or James Carville, depending on how he's feeling.
You never know, because he's he's so you know, flip floppy.
He was back on his anti Trump ship. He said,
quote almost every one of these Trump endorsed candidates that
you see in competitive states has lost. It's a huge
loss for Trump, and again it shows that his political
(42:41):
instincts are not about the party, they're not about the country,
They're about him. Yeah, but y'all knew. You've been saying
the same thing for since. Okay, everyone knows this. Everyone
knows this. The question is is whether or not you
are complicit and allowing him to continue to do it.
I mean everyone, everyone knows what he is, and everyone
(43:03):
knows that his political instincts are completely about self preservation.
And whenever he loses, everyone's like, oh, what a loser. Huh,
could never be me? And then he wins something and
be like, I love you master. It's just like a
spineless bunch of fox like. And there's the actor Jamal Booie.
(43:26):
I don't know if that's who pronounced this last name,
but in the New York Times last week wrote about
like this is really this is before the election. But
it's like, doesn't have to be this way. You don't
have to be an election denier to like you just
you could just choose not to be. You chose to be, Like,
it's your choice of sucking assholes. They have a real
problem because they already are like a party that's willing
(43:49):
to say anything to anyone, no matter what it means.
And because of that, no one has a sense of center,
like at all, just like you have no shame. Yeah,
for sure, they're all like these they're all creatures. They're
like organisms and this like nebulous thing and they're like,
where are we today? Fashionist or super Christian? And we
(44:11):
care about baby this, you know, like and so I
think you should do a whole podcast as it's a
visit audio visual experience. You gotta see my my what
my Celia on the out? Thank you so much. I
don't have a flagellum if you are curious with Celia Celia.
(44:37):
But you know, so like for example, at least Aphonic
and Jade Vance, they're already endorsing Trump for four even
though as of this recording and when they gave the endorsement,
Trump has not ran for has not announced his you know,
his candidacy, although we believe that's going to happen Tuesday,
the day you hear this, so who knows, get ready
for that. But it's just he's a you know. What's
(44:57):
interesting is like Trump is they he's really hard to
deal with because he doesn't he doesn't conform to anything
they're used to because like he's dumb, but also has
an unseddeningly good instinct for amassing influence. So and every
year he gets more erratic, he gets like less cunning,
like in the way they're like, oh, that's a finesse thing.
(45:18):
He's just like just the mass just completely comes off
more and more and more. But the establishment parties are
the establishment figures in the party like look on as
if he's like this pokemon on his way to it's
like final powerful form, and they just kind of stare
and do nothing. And honestly, the fact that they didn't
fucking impeach him after January six, they basically hit him
(45:43):
with the Gamma rays that made Bruce Banner of the
Hulk at that point, because now you've fully been like, yo,
you had your shot right there, and now you're stuck
with him, and he's become the brand, and now anybody
who wants to stop him is basically saying, I'm diametrically
opposed to the brand and go ahead, like let's see
some fireworks. Then that's part of the cynicism that I
(46:06):
was saying this overrated. I feel like it's this idea
that everything is fucking inevitable, Like he oh, he's inevitable.
You're like, no, he's not. We could just you could
just not stare, you could just not Gamma ray him.
You could just make a different fucking decision. And and instead,
it's just it's so disempowered or something. It's just so
(46:26):
so fucking cynical. It's just about money. Maybe disempowers wrong thing,
because it's all about power anyways, well powers of people
who actually do have the power to do something. If
you're a Republican in the House or Senate during January six,
you had the power to not gammoray him, to not
make him like above the law, and you didn't. And
(46:47):
so now everyone else was right there. Yeah, Mitch McConnell
was right there, and throughout the whole mid terms he was.
He was like, man, we have a Senate quality problem. Yeah, motherfucker,
because you're not challenging any of Trump's weirdo picks and
you like you're going against you spend all this time
being the grim Reaper and bringing all these majorities to
the Senate and then this guy just comes. It's like
we need more people who deny the election from two
(47:08):
years ago and they're like, uh, that's not the best. Also,
the people you're running in Arizona for Governor Doug Doocey,
he could just go for re election and have a
better chance at winning than a Democrat. Just it looks
like is about to happen because Carrie Lake again is
like fashionist, real housewife like president. Yeah, well she's just
(47:31):
made of vassolinus what I assume, but vascinating on the lens,
like she's nice soft bloom. There's always a nice bloom
around her. Because I'll give it to her. She was
like a TV anchor person. She understands lighting unlike any
of these other people, because every time she was on
TV she had perfect fucking lighting. Like she was like
(47:53):
literally was doing a talking headbit in a Real Housewives show.
I was like, okay, good for you, you have that
dialed in. Anyway, boot trap boys, please go ahead and
walk into the fire, you know, try and rest control
of your party. I'd really love to see it from here,
just to see how many y'all like take one step
into the breach and be like, I gotta never mind
never because it doesn't seem like y'all have a winning
(48:16):
hand there. I do love watching them all turn on
each other though. It's very It's very nice for me.
You know what, let's play, let's let's give ourselves a
little bit of a treat. I do want to play
this clip from Ted Cruise on his podcast where he's
just talking about like, who's to blame for the mid terms.
He's like, I'm pissed. Uh. Cruise has a podcast. Yeah, yeah,
(48:37):
it's called The Verdict with Ted Cruz lord check. So
this is a little sound by to him doing a
little bit of you know, yeah, post mortem on the
mid terms. The rage Americans are feeling across this country.
The rage that I'm feeling, there are almost not words
to describe it, because this opportunity was screw it up.
(49:01):
It was screwed up badly, and the people are gonna
pay the price, or the American people the country is
screwed for the next four years because of this. We're
gonna see horrible left wing judges confirmed for the next
two years. Because of this, We're gonna see judges taking
away our free speech rights, are religious liberty rights, are
Second Amendment rights. It is an enormous missed opportunity. And
(49:27):
I gotta say it, it is hard to describe my
feelings as anything other than rage right now. Yeah, it's all.
It's all those judges that are in the Supreme Court.
I think that are the ones taking away the rights,
ted that you guys lost. And also, you knows Americans
are not upset all of the ones who voted the
majority of them. It turns out you're talking to a
(49:51):
small group of people there, Teddy. But I just also
I wanted to bring up that point because it has
to be mentioned that he also was puffing his chest
out about here are my cruise twenty five picks for
twenty two victory fund. He had the Cruise twenty five
for twenty two victory fund where he was courting donations
for these house races. That cruise was focused on helping
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us deliver a majority. And I gotta tell you, man,
of the twenty five twenty four of the people that
were new, like are people trying to challenge an incumbent,
fucking nine won their races. He did. He was nine
for twenty four. This motherfucker swung out that he struck
out bad. So he's also part of that Tucker Carlson
(50:36):
crew of people who are like, I'll tell you where
to put your money. I know where it goes. Then
when the ship goes left, he's like, I don't know.
I'm so mad. We need to figure out what's going on.
It's like you were have No, you're an invertebrate and
he went with the with the Maga ship and that's
why it wasntebrate. I just it's just such a pleasure
to watch evil people fail. Yeah, it's a rarity space,
(51:01):
so it's nice to feel it and see it. And
also then being like being like, yo, they tripped because
their shoe laces are untied. Watch they're not going to
look at their shoelaces again and try and get back up.
And they're doing that. They're like, watch, they're not going
to try and actually figure out what the fun The
problem is covered in rakes and they keep stepping on
(51:21):
the rakes and I hit them in the nose. Did
you see Jessie Waters the clip where he was talking
about it's single women and the reason that single women
they should got to get married, and then then there's
too many single women and that's when once they get married,
they no longer vote Democrat and exactly once and your
(51:42):
white friends bitches, what they need to do is get
married to a cop with angry issues who will stand
over their shoulder as they vote. And that's how we'll
solve this thing. Very un did I do? Sorry? Sorry
Rebecca has never watched The Wire. Oh man, I just
(52:05):
thought I was. The first two episodes. It was so
stressful to me, and it was already after the whole
thing was done. I was like, this is I can't
be stressed for four years. Whatever the exactly how it felt.
All right, that's gonna do it. For this week's weekly Zeite, guys,
please like and review the show. If you like the show,
(52:30):
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I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
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(00:46):
I lost my voice just that. In your name. Thank you,
thank you, welcome back, welcome back, thank you. It's nothing.
It's short of a thrill to be here. You honor
us with such a description. What what sort of adventures
have your listeners been taking you on? Oh my god,
it's it has been truly wild. I'm trying to even
(01:09):
think of where we left off. I was supposed to
take the first job that I got on Craigslist gigs section.
I applied to be a hair model. I have very
long hair, and I said I'll be a hair model
for this fledgling beautician or Styla's who wants to try
you know, the pixie cut. Oh, oh my god, you
(01:31):
were about to let this person hit you with the
pixie If they responded first, I was gonna I would
have Wow, Lizzy. I applied to work as a Halloween
performer on someone's front lawn. They specified you had to
be fun spooky, so I was trying to figure out
where is the line. Yeah, because they're not just like
(01:54):
disturbing spook, right, Just don't go up to people and
be like I killed your brother. That's regular spooky going
up to a little kid like Earth won't be here
when you're my age, please please don't what not telling
the truth exactly like the adult Greta Thunberg. Yeah, there
(02:16):
is a There was a street or a house of
the street for me that did a climate based Halloween
themed like decoration, which I was like, yeah, hell yeah.
And then they also had a Rick Carusoe yard sign.
Rick Cruso, the billionaire mall magnate who's supposed to, uh,
(02:36):
you know, solve all of l A's problems. We don't
have the results that he's making. It snow at the
grove right exactly about climate what is something from your
search history? Okay, well I was gonna say best seats
so Fi Stadium, but I feel like that's just more
(02:57):
of us talking about the same. But I also had
recently googled Irish girls names, and that was because I
was panicking at a show where I knew they were
filming the sets. And I've been doing a joke where
I say a real person's name, and I thought maybe
I should come up with a different name. But it's
(03:18):
just such a funny name to me. And I was
in the back trying to come up with a fake name.
And the problem with that stuff is it's the real
example is always funnier, just like not possible, Like I
wish I could. I'll share offline with you guys the
name that I that is the true name of this
real person. But I was like in the back being like,
(03:40):
I can't say sirsha Everyone knows that name as Sir Sharonian,
like I mean, and these are just you know what,
I feel like, that's a shift on succession. We're hearing that,
you know what is it? But that is another iconic one, right,
(04:03):
kind of a cool name. Yeah, this is more of
like a the joke I do is I call her
a white girl named after a pony, and I feel
like I feel like sand is not a pony name.
You know, is running that that that whole operation for sure.
I feel like you can't go wrong with a Mary
(04:25):
to start it off, like Mary Sheila. Oh yeah, maybe
a two partner name like Mary Sheilah. Yeah, maybe I
can make up a whole hands big name with the
Irish last name. It's funny how it's true, Like truth
in comedy is always like the thing you like, one
(04:46):
of the first things you really learn when you're getting
into comedy. And yeah, like to your point, even if
you tried to engineer it, the fact, like you know,
it's just funnier because it's coming from the absolute like
well of truth and that probably translates immediately to the
didn't even know They're like, was that the person's real name?
You think? It just like the delivery and everything it
comes together beautiful. How did it go? What would you
(05:07):
come up with? And did did it hit as hard
with the fake name in there? I just said her
real name. It's like, you know what, And it's like
a thing where I don't think that it's they're going
to put that part out one it'll be fine, and
you know what, if that girl finds out, I'd honestly
be shocked. But I just I think sometimes once in comedy,
(05:29):
when it's like there's something about a show that's not
being filmed, where you go like, I mean, I'm technically
speaking into a microphone to an audience. This is not private,
but it feels different when you're filming and like posting
something online and all that feels like a different level.
I don't know, but yeah, the real, the real example
(05:49):
is always the funniest. Yeah, what is something shanning you
think is overrated? Okay? I think I think smooth ageless
skin is overrated, all right. And the reason I'm saying
this is because I am being bombarded. I am being
harassed constantly seven with like every product that's like, don't
(06:13):
you want to get rid of your nasty crater old
woman's skin? And I'm like, whoa Jesus, what is happening?
And it's like Black Friday is coming up. I don't
know what it is, really, but it feels like it
feels like every year now it's like getting longer. It
used to be like a day, Now it's a week
now this year, it feels like it's a year long event,
and I'm getting so many Black Friday deals for like
all these like lasers and things, and I'm just like,
(06:34):
you know what, Like I'm I'm annoyed. I'm annoyed about it.
Leave me alone. I don't care. I'm about to take
a knife to my face and give myself the deep
lines and just be like, look, look, it's fine, you know,
Like I'm I'm so happy. Yeah, it's okay. Because it's
a little intense and like we're all in the same
age group. Are are you all getting harassed on social
(06:55):
media with this stuff? I see I see increased like
men's in care things pop up. But yeah, I'm I
don't know. I think again. I just try and ignore
as many ads as possible unless it's like a gigantic
blanket I can wear, and the I'm like, well, hold on,
what's this. I'm in the market for that. I don't
need things. It's like your pores look like the surface
(07:17):
of the moon, and I'm like, what the fun I'm like, okay, yeah,
Like I like, I want a blanket. I'll buy so
many blankets. I'll buy a blanket from my face, but like,
stop sending me these ads where it's like, we know
you're dying, don't look out sexy and tire the fact
that you're dying from anyone else. I'm like, I think
(07:38):
the fact that I'm dying is cool, Okay, Like I'm
I think it's relatable that we're all aging and I
love it, like I love my face. Right, Yeah, I
think it's just funked up when the marketing is like, hey,
you should be in denial about your mortality because that's
the most unhealthy ship. Because if the second you go
down that road of like, oh, I can prevent like
(08:00):
having to be visited by my own mortality. When I
look in the mirror, I feel like that's where, you know,
you can get a little bit too invested in that.
So yeah, you know, when I say that as somebody
with basically no wrinkles, maybe because the genetics have blessed me.
So for all y'all out there with the prune skin,
you know, I feel for y'all. Miles sponsored by one
(08:20):
of these firms. But I do have to say on
his behalf that he's okay. Yeah, so it's not it's
not total Paola. Yeah, but I do inject human growth
hormone directly into my the corner something. He has a
proprietary serum that he's trying to push. You're one of
that Black Friday, and I mean, like, I'm sure you
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don't feel good, you know, knowing that you're just a
rotting corpse every day, right, So yeah, I don't know.
I think it's kind of fun. Like I've always felt
like this body, Like I've always felt like, oh man,
I can't wait to just be like an ethereal gas again.
Like you know, like my body has always kind of
just been like clearly like designed to keep me grounded.
(09:02):
And I'm a Pisces scorpion moon. Oh listen, I want
to float. I want to be in the sky. So
like I kind of think part of our human journey
and like the fact that we are slowly decaying and
eventually going to die. Like I think that's the coolest
part about life. It's like it's enjoyed this, this is
fun and at the end we get this this like
ultimate release, this like cool transformation, this level up. Like
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you know, I'm not trying to Heaven's gate it, but
you know, when when organically op Yeah, but if it
organically happens to me, or you know, or if I
see it happening slowly, I'm not going to fight it.
So like you know, lasers are cool, but like lasers
that are meant to shame me, I don't think lasers
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should shame. Okay, I don't think we should be engaging
in shame, especially not revolving around appearance, and especially when
you know the comment hail Bob is about to do
another periheli in by the earth in which catch it
this time? Yeah, well, don't don't miss your chance this
time mess it up like those dudes are falling Marshall
(10:05):
apple White did Did they mess it out? Miles or
are they partying right now? On the tail of what's
something you think is underrated? Okay? Staying on theme, Black
Friday is overrated? Black Christmas is underrated? Are y'all fans
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of the horror movie Black Christmas? I am not I
am not not a fan. I just have not gotten
into it. But I have heard like that. Then than
people remember no, I never heard of this. Oh okay,
so whoa and I went to school with her? Okay,
go on, well there's the there there's a remake that
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came out a few years ago, but the original one,
I think came out in nineteen seventy four, and it's
a Christmas not themed but like it's a horror movie
that takes place during Christmas break on a college campus.
And one of the reasons why it is iconic and
underrated to me is that the whole like trope of
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the final girl in horror movies, like we think it
started with Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween, which came out
right after Black Christmas, but this movie Black Christmas was
actually the first to include a final girl, the one
who survives at the very end. But unlike the trope
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where she's like super chaste and virginal, this character, Jess
is we know she's sexual because she's pregnant and she's
getting an abortion, but she's not like punished for it.
In fact, like her boyfriend, who's a jerk about it,
ends up getting slashed spoiler. And it was just a
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really fascinating, like I don't know, to me see kind
of what could have been. But it was the same
director who went on to make a Christmas story, so
clearly he loves Christmas. Another dark take. He was like,
oh too, dark and a Christmas story. Okay, Okay, Bob Clark,
there's there's your double feature and it is legit scary.
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It is very very spooky scary. I was like, wow,
what didn't interesting storyline with this character? Like it's going
against most of like American trumps, like a Canadian slasher film. Okay,
I like that. I see I see it now. Yeah,
that's wild that the slasher genre like started in a
very progressive place and then they're like, nah, well we'll
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make it basically a metaphor for puritan values. Right, that's wild.
I think there's another Christmas horror movie that I've seen
billboards for with a Santa. That's the one with the
guy from David Harbor. David Harbor. Yeah, yeah, what the
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fund is that one Harbor Santa movie? Violent Night Night
Kill Santa. Let's just what my kids need to see.
And I think Hallmark should really kind of get in
on this, you know, the holiday horror genre. Really it's
worth it. I don't. I don't see that. I like
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somebody who watches so much Hallmark movies, I'm like, can
we spice it up a little, because some motherfucker gets
stabbed in this movie? Please, just to kind of keep
things going. They have one that's like there's a series
of films that's sort of like a murder mystery one
and like one takes place during the holidays, but they
don't they haven't leaned into that. I mean, I get
it because Hallmark, like I'm pretty sure they have this
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thing where like you can't even have They used to
say you can't have magic ship like be the inciting
incident in it because Christians, you know, I don't like that.
Just keep it, keep it, keep it, you know, keep it,
you know, nice and above board with God. Mhmm, yeah,
that would be my main objection. So I'm glad to
see that that rule is being I think it is
rolled back. But there was a while where like people
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like it's like in talking with people who make them,
they're like, yeah, you can't pitch Hallmarket thing where like
like magic is like the main point of something occurring
in this Christmas story or else they'll be like mad, no, no,
this is this is Satan Satan ship, right, although maybe
maybe like they're just wrong, and it would it would
push things like like nobody thought you should include religion
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in your horror movies until the Exorcist. So just say, Christmas,
the holidays are a lot darker than people have depict
them in their shows. So Christener you a big horror
slash slasher slash slasher fan. I sound like it, but
not especially. I have like some select favorites, and black
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Christmas is one of them. And yeah, I'm just thinking,
if we're gonna, if we're gonna have to have a
you know, two month long Christmas season, now holiday season. Now,
let's spice up to Avatar, to the way of the
Water season in my household. All right, let's take a
quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back,
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and knives are out for Trump and the Republican Party.
They're they're just looking for their like, well, it can't
be our politics. The people rejected, So what do we
What do we do here? What do we him? You
get mad at him? Right now? They're choosing the one
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person that they absolutely can't get rid of. I'm sure
that I have to assume this is a this is
a passing fad. As soon as they look at the
numbers again, they'll be like, oh wait, our Trump guy.
But the problem is, right, this is like the one
time where they absolutely need to find something different because
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with Trump at the ticket, it's been consecutive elections where
they're just losing. Yeah, Like it's it's been a downward
trend every since and like but it's funny, like they
always there there's a lot of outrage from like mainstream
Republican figures, but like each time there's some ship like
this the Ukraine call meddling with the d o J
attempted election theft, there are always like a few more
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Republicans are like, oh, I wouldn't do that, but then
they don't do anything. They get too scared, and next thing,
you know, they realize, oh, that's right, this dude is
my daddy now. And last week a lot of the
media outlets on the right came for him. In the
National Review, the headline was Trump is a bust for Republicans. Okay, okay,
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and then uh going to Ruper Murdach, what's he doing
over there? Well, the most of the channels are like,
I don't know about this guy. On the New York Post,
the cover on Thursday showed Trump as trumpty dumpty don
who couldn't build a wall, had a great fall. Can
all the GOP's men put the party back together again. Uh,
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and they're all kind of getting they're all using Trump
as this excuse, but they let them run that entire title.
I mean, it's a New York Post like whenever it's
like pun filled, they're like, man, fuck whatever, both of
the standards are, get that pun in there. But you know,
like they kind of tried to stop him in sen
like where that first, like this guy is gonna be bad,
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only to just realize like that, them constantly feeding the
base like nativist bullshit in the eight years prior is
like what made Trump absolutely irresistible to their voters. So
they just got out the way and we're like amazed
at what happened, and they excuse every single funk up
because they really saw this guy as like the way
to like that thing we talked about last week when
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Nick Fuentez like this, when right wing extremist time, like
we just need a dictatorship. Man, doesn't matter how many
more of them that there are than us. Well, we
think we need to get them to be get in
line with like our rules, and that's it. Many people
saw Trump as being like, oh, this guy can just
get this, Like if we just stay behind him, we
might get to that place. So it's just kind of like,
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I don't know if there's really like we always say,
there's no hypocrisy with like the base or the politicians
on the right, because you know, like they know that
this is all about just getting to the end game
of just own the Libs fully and just having just
give us absolute power and we'll look away at every
single thing. But I don't know, it's just there. They
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keep trying to do this thing where they act like, oh,
here we go, they're gonna dump them, but they've already
like the toothpastes out the two Yeah, yeah, but they
I mean, people were pointing out the New York Post
has turned on Trump before, and everyone like it's the
end for Trump. And then someone's like, actually, they we
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we all said that four years ago, like that this
is you'll do this all the time. This is exactly Yeah,
you didn't want him in the first place, Like the
mainstream of the party didn't want him in the first place,
and we're we're supporting Jeb Bush and other you know,
establishment tickets. And then they realized quickly when the primary
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started that they couldn't beat him, and so they go,
they go back to it. It's just there's not a
great option. I mean, DeSantis seems to be the option
that the like there maybe their best option, their best
alternative to this point, but I I can't picture a
version of this playing out where de Santi's beats Trump.
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He's just too much more entertaining. And there is he's
a person who has a death cult, like we haven't
had that it ever, like a large scale death cult
in America. Like that's it's pretty wild. But yeah, it's like,
but how do you get but they're kind of maxed
out their membership on the death cult and now they're like, fuck,
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if this is the best we can do, and jerrymandering
is like only barely getting us like to even footing,
then what Because I think that's the thing that a
lot of you know, like the consultant and strategy class
of the party you're thinking about, like I don't know
how the funk you're gonna win, like like you can
only do so much without trying to figure out. Maybe
someone else energizes more people to come back, and we'll
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see what happens. But I think the thing that really
said Trump off, especially last week because he lost it,
like really in an interesting way. The New York Post,
I think, on Friday posted this headline with him and
his family after he won re election. It says, the
future run the future. Yes, run the future. Okay, mask
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off And he's also mask off like future with his
racism and just heinousness. But Donald Trump went out and
then got on truth social and like email blasted everybody
talking about how like I made this motherfucker When he
said he was dying in the balls, I endorsed him.
Then he said this, this is really interesting quote. I
was all in for Ron and he beat Gillham. But
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after the race, when votes were being stolen by the
corrupt election process in Browood County and Ron was going
down ten thousand votes today along with now Senator Rick Scott,
I sent in the FBI and the U S attorneys,
and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them
running out of the votes necessary to win. I stepped
this election from being stolen. Hold on, sir, what you said?
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Who to do? What a lot of people are like,
is this for real? Did he really? Was? He already
sucking with the like these mid terms, and I think
a lot of people are like. It most likely is
a reference to when then Florida Attorney General Pam bond
I like took into listen to some bullshit claims was
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looking into some ship about voter fraud and they didn't
find ship, and they kept it moving because I think
most people have noticed we usually have here most of
the ship that happens like in real time with this guy,
It just depends on how much of it gets reported
or not. And not many people found anything that, you know,
that seemed consistent with what he just said. But again,
I think shows his level of like, like he's really
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doing like I made you is the vibe right now.
The only vision is empowers because I committed crimes to
get him there easy. But that's what's so good about
having the Republicans tied to somebody who is any any
time he's under attack or like any something that he
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perceives as humiliating, which is almost everything, because that's just
like how his brain work, Like anytime that's happening, he
is like a person who's drowning and just pulling everyone
in with him, just like fuck you on like and
we'll keep doing that until he's on a pile of
bodies like just it's like watching a magician bomb. Yeah,
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you did not see me switched the quarter into my
other hand. When we did, we did. What the funk man?
That wasn't magic? Okay? What about this guy? Like this
guy was loving it a minute ago? To ask him
what happened? He sent me up Actually, motherfucker, get up here.
Let's all boo him. What? But yeah, I think then
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he went on and came after the governor like Glenn
Unken and was like being like, I don't know, maybe
he's Asian. It sounds Asian to me. What kind of
last name is young Ken? Like that's the I'm not joking.
That was the level of shit talking he was at today.
It was just being like, this dude's last name sounds Asian.
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This is what he said, young kid, and parenthetical that's
an interesting take. Sounds Chinese, doesn't it? What are you doing?
I think we should just isolate the side that Lizzie
just said and that should be our only analysis of
It's giving me a panic Like the idea of going
back to it gives me a panic attack. Well, this
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is the thing, right, I think most people have seen
all these MAGA candidates that were running to be elected.
The ones that were re elected is one thing, But
the people who are trying to unseat incumbents incumbents were
not fucking winning, and that's a big thing that they're like, Dude,
the MAGA ship is not as potent as it used
to be. And I think that's that's the one thing
(24:38):
that I will take as an indication of perhaps his
stock somewhat dwindling. Is that, like it just like they
wasn't quite getting over the line with some of these extremists.
Like at a certain point some people are like, yeah,
like Donald Trump's like, but also like a lot of
this ship is it doesn't sound like solution based at all.
It sounds like, you know, let's just restrict people's access
to like healthcare or privatize social curity and things like that.
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So I don't know, but you'd feel like if there
was that sort of same energy behind it, that would
have been borne out a little bit in the election results.
So I think it's just merely like because the brand
is just so it's just not as it's losing its
appeal somewhat. Yeah, I feel like it's very muddy, Like
like you said, it's on the one hand, it does
(25:21):
seem like the Maggie candidates didn't do well, and but
like all of the analysis of the midterm elections and
like them being the opposite of what was predicted by
the mainstream media, a lot of it is like, well,
there is a candidate quality issue and Trump maybe like
Trump's appeal maybe dwindling, but like that's hard to prove
(25:43):
because he wasn't like on the ticket, you know, like
he wasn't no, nobody was actually voting for him, and
so it just muddies what seems like there are some
very straightforward like policy takeaways that should be the thing
that every media outlet is pointing out, pointing to, and
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but but they are these like straightforward policy takeaways that
don't work with the mainstream narrative because they're too simple
and straightforward. And like it does feel like this moment
feels go ahead. I was just gonna say, I love
that the idea of a candidate quality check for Republicans,
(26:27):
Like what that would be like, is there a crease
in your doctors check their teeth and gum line okay
like a horse, like okay, good, But this moment just
feels very clarifying to me, like it feels like, you know,
there's a bunch of progressive energy at the point, like
from voters that is laid bare in an election that
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the mainstream media was kind of distracted into thinking was
going in a different direction, so they didn't really have
their messaging ready for like what was going to happen
if there was this kind of progressive energy that turned out,
And instead of like covering the progressive policies that are
resonating with people that have resonated with people for a
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long time, they're just like muddying everything with this like
are people tired of Trump? Like what's Trump gonna say?
Like just this like personality contest, this like sports media
bullshit take of just like who's got the better like
who who's the better horse? Essentially, The New York Times
(27:32):
literally like the day after the election was like, all right,
here's who we like for the Democratic presidency. If Biden
drops out, they'll be shocked to know the people they
liked Harris Buddha Jedge where we're like all the mainstream
centrist Democrats and the people they weren't feeling like literally
there was a category that was like here's who do
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Here's who we like, and then a category I'm just
not feeling it. And it was like the first two
were Bernie Sanders and AOC. We're like number one and
two of like just not feeling just not feeling once
to old once too. You think J. B. Pritsker was
in the middle section of that. Yeah, that's not a
lot of people are just like, just get the just
get these big lads out there, right, Yeah, the big,
(28:17):
big relatable lads out there, like in the Rush belt.
But there's like a very straightforward story to tell here
like that. So yeah, there has a lot of there
has been a lot of support for progressive policies that
performed incredibly well, and they performed incredibly well in like
big elections like Pennsylvania with Shapiro and Fetterman just you know,
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running populist campaigns that are focused on giving people economic
reforms that help their lives, like that is for some
reason seen as like this fringe populist thing, but it works.
And then there are these more conservative, demo cratic statewide
campaigns in North Carolina and Iowa that had so Fetterman
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Shapiro both ran ahead of how Joe Biden did in
traditionally Republican parts of the state. That's always what Democrats are, like,
the thing that we got to figure out is how
we get those like those blue collar workers to start
voting Democrat again. So they have their answer that that's it,
(29:25):
like that just run on populist, progressive economic policies that
we we saw that work. And when they didn't do
that in state wide campaigns in North Carolina and Iowa,
they ran behind Joe Biden. So it's like a very
very straightforward lesson and that feels like good news, right,
(29:47):
they have a very clear answer following this election. The
bad news is they've had a very clear answer before
this and ignore the funk out of it, But how
do we do economic populism without really affecting the bottom
line a lot of companies? And I think that's the like,
that's this fucking weird cliff that the Democrats are always
like standing over there, like, I mean, it's a winning
(30:09):
message when you speak directly to people's lived experiences and say,
I know you're getting fucked over by like rising prices
and the greed of companies. I know that. Like when
you go that route, people are like wait what and
suddenly like you're saying like rural counties start going back
towards Democrats because they're speaking something that is like very straightforward.
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Every politician needs to start dressing like Aaron Brockovich. Yes,
why not. I would love to see that. But I mean,
like that's that's what's sort of like so infuriating. Is that,
like it's so simple. It's like you just you get
your you get your hymnal from your donors, and then
you have to sing the songs that they say. Yeah,
(30:51):
like you see it with with the messaging around inflation
like that was supposed to swing the whole election, and
it didn't really because people understood like all of the
stuff about like well Biden giving money to you the
voter is what caused this pain. This inflation like that
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it resonated something. It was like a fifty fifty split
basically on inflation, but it wasn't like the thing that
swung the election. And by the way, the like pre
electoral like analysis that they got was from Larry Summers,
who may remember as the president of Harvard, who was
like flying on the Lolite express that we covered when
we're talking about how Harvard. Yeah, it's basically a bastion
(31:37):
of wealth protectionism and not liberal intellectualism. But anyways, like
the the big one is just like they're all these
very popular progressive policies that we keep seeing, like we
making abortionate illegal is wildly unpopular, and that does seem
to be the one that the mainstream media is letting
it Like they're letting that message in that Okay, the
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you know what, what the extremist Republican position and action
now on abortion is cost them this election, But they're
not like covering the fact that, like gun control is popular,
and like voters represented that white supremacy is unpopular, and
voters represented that in some places, people don't think healthcare
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should bankrupt you. Yeah, yeah, and like that's another wild
thing to just I just wanted to talk about all
the attacks that teachers are under and like critical race
theory and all this culture war bullshit. There were a
lot of bills that passed that were increasing funding to
public schools. So despite all that, like you weren't like
despite me, like no, we gotta we gotta cut this
ship off and privatize everything. Most people are like no, no, no,
(32:46):
we like that, take take that more money for them. Yeah,
pro choice measures swept at the ballot box. Progressives one
with ballot measures that support policies like raising the minimum
wage and taxing the rich. Just everywhere across the country,
a bunch of like progressive House candidates one, but like
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aren't being covered summarily in Pennsylvania, Delia Ramirez in Illinois.
There's like a bunch of these Greg Cassar in Texas,
like a you know, these populous candidates are winning in Texas.
It seems like these are the surprising results that they
would cover if they didn't have some other agenda. I
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can't quite put my finger on it right pro collective
bargaining measures one, legalized cannabis one. Like measures for rent
control one everywhere They fucking one in Orange County, Florida,
like rent control. Rent control is popular in Florida. You
think that would be like the one of the big takeaways.
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It's like, help people because they're being harmed by massive corporations,
and like they it's a very straightforward message that they
seem to be willfully fucking up at places are they
are because again, it's a consolidation of our media and everything,
and it's all being ran by a very specific kind
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of person in a very specific socio economic situation with
a very specific perspective. And that's I mean, honestly, that's
that's why I like people like candidates who aren't his
tethered to like the old school like political machine of
using corporate dollars and things like that, are speaking more
freely than the ones that are like born from it.
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And that's I think that's the balancing act of d
n C is also probably gonna look at too. It's like, dude,
you get too many of these populaces in here. We're
like we're like a couple. You know. Congress is away
from like real like actually delivering for people at the
expense of like profits. And I think that's what will
be interesting too, because there's a lot of analysis about
how there was a lot of success in the suburbs
(34:54):
and suburban voters going to Trump, but a lot of
suburban voters tend to be like upper addle middle class
and maybe look at the economy way different than these
other people, these other voters that the Democrats are also
trying to court, which are like like workers laborers who
are like looking at how like the economy is affecting
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them and have a like maybe probably a more populist
agenda than the people in the suburbs. So how are
they going to balance all those things? And you feel
like they're gonna probably just shy away from going more populous.
But I don't know. I mean, maybe they found a
way to be like we can do a little bit
of that stuff while still like wreaking and or generating
massive money and not completely just you know, knee capping
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in industry because we decided people need free medicine or
some wacky ship like that. Does populist just mean like
anti corporate and like humanitarian like like that. It feels
like it's just like, yeah, I don't, I don't know.
It's people, you mean populous interchangeably to refer to Trump
and then policies of like rent control. It's just it's
(36:00):
just appeal to normal people. That's all it is. It's
just normal. So that's all subjective, right, But I think
what Trump he was being like as an outsider in sixteen,
it was great popes, like we got to get these
like nobody's making money. These prescription drugs are way too
like he did. He was talking to a lot a
(36:20):
lot of that ship. And so but then got in,
I was like, I'm broke and I have bills. Y'all
have a friend, a friend who like works in finance
from like you know, a friend that I went to
school with and he heard our podcast and was like, oh,
I had no idea you were so populist. And I
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was like, what does that mean? Yeah? Is that? I
think that is like a slur in that realm, right,
is like the idea that well, you're just saying what
people want to hear, and it's like, well, they wanted
to hear it because they're not stupid and it helps
them and there are like clear ways that people can
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help themselves through politics that fucking everyone else is ignoring,
like in the mainstream media. Right. Yes, it really is
like that thing where like, yeah, you're I don't know
how to put it. Like I feel like back in
the day, like I would I would be wanted to
date somebody and then like are you like you know,
(37:25):
they tell me like I'm not happy in the relationship.
I was like, oh, that's that's messed up, and they
what's happening, Oh they don't do this and don't go,
oh that's that's messed up. Then you get a call
Hey man, why are you talking shit to me? Like
talking about me tomorrow to my girlfriend was like what
I just They literally just said what was going on?
And I agreed. I wasn't generating some other narrative. You're
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just getting angry at the fact that objectively the situation
is not good and someone describing it is somehow Now
this like underhanded thing rather than for like the parties
in power understanding their messages aren't resonating. The status quo
is absolute violence in death, and that's how most people
see it. So you come out here talking that same thing,
(38:08):
they go, oh, that's death and destruct that's death and destruction. Yeah,
that's not solutions like someone who's and I think that's
all it is. People just want you to come and
be like, here's the problem. Here's the solution, Republicans, right now,
just go here's the fucking problem. You' all right, Yeah,
it's just well, then the New York Times doesn't have
a single like they have a columnist who's willing to
say fucking everything. They have a columnist who's willing to
(38:31):
be like being a traditional Catholic is actually punk rock
and you know, like just the wildest ship, like loving
the pope is the most punk rock thing you can
do today, and they don't have somebody who's willing to
be like all right, so like Democratic voters like came
out in force voted for Democrats and said that they're
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really frustrated, like an ex oponent, they said, they're really
frustrated with the Democrat like with Joe Biden. So like
there's a clear message here. They vote for, you know,
progressive policies and they're frustrated with the existing thing. Like
what wouldn't it suggest that, like it would make sense
for the Democratic Party to like shift to more progressive
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policies and like being more straightforwardly like helpful to people
and humanitarian. Um, they don't have a single columnist who
make who makes that argument. Is pretty well, just thinking
about how much is brewing in Florida right now? Is
does Trump still live there? Oh yeah, I think he
refuses to even leave when a tropical storm is coming.
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As of the last week, I'll nucas, let's take a
quick break, we'll be right back, and we're back. And
the Republicans, y'all, I mean, you know, for all the
(39:58):
all the chaos that's going around, they really they should
just change their name to the fucking Knife Party at
this point, because the republic can'ts yeah about that fucking
windmill on them, Matt, please polsterize them right there with
that one. Yeah, but like like red Graves alright, Vanessa Redgrave, Yeah,
(40:27):
all right, right now, the Party of Personal Personal Responsibility
wants fuck all to do with any concept of responsibility
to do with the mid terms, Although it should be
noted that the Republicans look like they will have around
a two seat majority in the House with current projections.
There's still stuff that's up in the air, but that
(40:49):
sort of seems like where things are gonna land. And
also it should be noted that over the weekend the
Democrats were able to you know, solidify the majority in
the Senate. Would the run being just a little bit
of a one just a little icing on top of
the cherry, if that's how I don't think. But let's
check in with some of the saltier beings on the right.
(41:11):
First up, Sarah Palin. She is just just going out
the the party itself for letting her be herself. She
put this i G post that this Daily Beast or
this article The Independent describes as in a conspiracy. In
instagram post, miss Palin blamed the quote Kaca Mami ranked
choice voting system Senator Lisa Murkowski and the quote dark
(41:34):
dysfunctional GOP machine after she was seemingly trounced by Democrat
Mary Poltola for a second time in three months. Shout
out to Mary. Uh goes on to say, quote, this
is from Sarah Palin. The GOP establishment deserves losses until
it's willing to fight for what is right. So we
have somebody saying they didn't let me be maga enough,
and they're like, that was the problem. They were trying
(41:57):
to they were trying to unmaga you. But go off, Sarah.
It's fine. It's just I keep forgetting she exists. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I think right because when she comes back there like,
oh my god, you throw back meme. All right, I
guess we'll see what happens. Chris Christie, who on a
(42:19):
given day could have a take that makes him sound
like Don Junior or James Carville, depending on how he's feeling.
You never know, because he's he's so you know, flip floppy.
He was back on his anti Trump ship. He said,
quote almost every one of these Trump endorsed candidates that
you see in competitive states has lost. It's a huge
loss for Trump, and again it shows that his political
(42:41):
instincts are not about the party, they're not about the country,
They're about him. Yeah, but y'all knew. You've been saying
the same thing for since. Okay, everyone knows this. Everyone
knows this. The question is is whether or not you
are complicit and allowing him to continue to do it.
I mean everyone, everyone knows what he is, and everyone
(43:03):
knows that his political instincts are completely about self preservation.
And whenever he loses, everyone's like, oh, what a loser. Huh,
could never be me? And then he wins something and
be like, I love you master. It's just like a
spineless bunch of fox like. And there's the actor Jamal Booie.
(43:26):
I don't know if that's who pronounced this last name,
but in the New York Times last week wrote about
like this is really this is before the election. But
it's like, doesn't have to be this way. You don't
have to be an election denier to like you just
you could just choose not to be. You chose to be, Like,
it's your choice of sucking assholes. They have a real
problem because they already are like a party that's willing
(43:49):
to say anything to anyone, no matter what it means.
And because of that, no one has a sense of center,
like at all, just like you have no shame. Yeah,
for sure, they're all like these they're all creatures. They're
like organisms and this like nebulous thing and they're like,
where are we today? Fashionist or super Christian? And we
(44:11):
care about baby this, you know, like and so I
think you should do a whole podcast as it's a
visit audio visual experience. You gotta see my my what
my Celia on the out? Thank you so much. I
don't have a flagellum if you are curious with Celia Celia.
(44:37):
But you know, so like for example, at least Aphonic
and Jade Vance, they're already endorsing Trump for four even
though as of this recording and when they gave the endorsement,
Trump has not ran for has not announced his you know,
his candidacy, although we believe that's going to happen Tuesday,
the day you hear this, so who knows, get ready
for that. But it's just he's a you know. What's
(44:57):
interesting is like Trump is they he's really hard to
deal with because he doesn't he doesn't conform to anything
they're used to because like he's dumb, but also has
an unseddeningly good instinct for amassing influence. So and every
year he gets more erratic, he gets like less cunning,
like in the way they're like, oh, that's a finesse thing.
(45:18):
He's just like just the mass just completely comes off
more and more and more. But the establishment parties are
the establishment figures in the party like look on as
if he's like this pokemon on his way to it's
like final powerful form, and they just kind of stare
and do nothing. And honestly, the fact that they didn't
fucking impeach him after January six, they basically hit him
(45:43):
with the Gamma rays that made Bruce Banner of the
Hulk at that point, because now you've fully been like, yo,
you had your shot right there, and now you're stuck
with him, and he's become the brand, and now anybody
who wants to stop him is basically saying, I'm diametrically
opposed to the brand and go ahead, like let's see
some fireworks. Then that's part of the cynicism that I
(46:06):
was saying this overrated. I feel like it's this idea
that everything is fucking inevitable, Like he oh, he's inevitable.
You're like, no, he's not. We could just you could
just not stare, you could just not Gamma ray him.
You could just make a different fucking decision. And and instead,
it's just it's so disempowered or something. It's just so
(46:26):
so fucking cynical. It's just about money. Maybe disempowers wrong thing,
because it's all about power anyways, well powers of people
who actually do have the power to do something. If
you're a Republican in the House or Senate during January six,
you had the power to not gammoray him, to not
make him like above the law, and you didn't. And
(46:47):
so now everyone else was right there. Yeah, Mitch McConnell
was right there, and throughout the whole mid terms he was.
He was like, man, we have a Senate quality problem. Yeah, motherfucker,
because you're not challenging any of Trump's weirdo picks and
you like you're going against you spend all this time
being the grim Reaper and bringing all these majorities to
the Senate and then this guy just comes. It's like
we need more people who deny the election from two
(47:08):
years ago and they're like, uh, that's not the best. Also,
the people you're running in Arizona for Governor Doug Doocey,
he could just go for re election and have a
better chance at winning than a Democrat. Just it looks
like is about to happen because Carrie Lake again is
like fashionist, real housewife like president. Yeah, well she's just
(47:31):
made of vassolinus what I assume, but vascinating on the lens,
like she's nice soft bloom. There's always a nice bloom
around her. Because I'll give it to her. She was
like a TV anchor person. She understands lighting unlike any
of these other people, because every time she was on
TV she had perfect fucking lighting. Like she was like
(47:53):
literally was doing a talking headbit in a Real Housewives show.
I was like, okay, good for you, you have that
dialed in. Anyway, boot trap boys, please go ahead and
walk into the fire, you know, try and rest control
of your party. I'd really love to see it from here,
just to see how many y'all like take one step
into the breach and be like, I gotta never mind
never because it doesn't seem like y'all have a winning
(48:16):
hand there. I do love watching them all turn on
each other though. It's very It's very nice for me.
You know what, let's play, let's let's give ourselves a
little bit of a treat. I do want to play
this clip from Ted Cruise on his podcast where he's
just talking about like, who's to blame for the mid terms.
He's like, I'm pissed. Uh. Cruise has a podcast. Yeah, yeah,
(48:37):
it's called The Verdict with Ted Cruz lord check. So
this is a little sound by to him doing a
little bit of you know, yeah, post mortem on the
mid terms. The rage Americans are feeling across this country.
The rage that I'm feeling, there are almost not words
to describe it, because this opportunity was screw it up.
(49:01):
It was screwed up badly, and the people are gonna
pay the price, or the American people the country is
screwed for the next four years because of this. We're
gonna see horrible left wing judges confirmed for the next
two years. Because of this, We're gonna see judges taking
away our free speech rights, are religious liberty rights, are
Second Amendment rights. It is an enormous missed opportunity. And
(49:27):
I gotta say it, it is hard to describe my
feelings as anything other than rage right now. Yeah, it's all.
It's all those judges that are in the Supreme Court.
I think that are the ones taking away the rights,
ted that you guys lost. And also, you knows Americans
are not upset all of the ones who voted the
majority of them. It turns out you're talking to a
(49:51):
small group of people there, Teddy. But I just also
I wanted to bring up that point because it has
to be mentioned that he also was puffing his chest
out about here are my cruise twenty five picks for
twenty two victory fund. He had the Cruise twenty five
for twenty two victory fund where he was courting donations
for these house races. That cruise was focused on helping
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us deliver a majority. And I gotta tell you, man,
of the twenty five twenty four of the people that
were new, like are people trying to challenge an incumbent,
fucking nine won their races. He did. He was nine
for twenty four. This motherfucker swung out that he struck
out bad. So he's also part of that Tucker Carlson
(50:36):
crew of people who are like, I'll tell you where
to put your money. I know where it goes. Then
when the ship goes left, he's like, I don't know.
I'm so mad. We need to figure out what's going on.
It's like you were have No, you're an invertebrate and
he went with the with the Maga ship and that's
why it wasntebrate. I just it's just such a pleasure
to watch evil people fail. Yeah, it's a rarity space,
(51:01):
so it's nice to feel it and see it. And
also then being like being like, yo, they tripped because
their shoe laces are untied. Watch they're not going to
look at their shoelaces again and try and get back up.
And they're doing that. They're like, watch, they're not going
to try and actually figure out what the fun The
problem is covered in rakes and they keep stepping on
(51:21):
the rakes and I hit them in the nose. Did
you see Jessie Waters the clip where he was talking
about it's single women and the reason that single women
they should got to get married, and then then there's
too many single women and that's when once they get married,
they no longer vote Democrat and exactly once and your
(51:42):
white friends bitches, what they need to do is get
married to a cop with angry issues who will stand
over their shoulder as they vote. And that's how we'll
solve this thing. Very un did I do? Sorry? Sorry
Rebecca has never watched The Wire. Oh man, I just
(52:05):
thought I was. The first two episodes. It was so
stressful to me, and it was already after the whole
thing was done. I was like, this is I can't
be stressed for four years. Whatever the exactly how it felt.
All right, that's gonna do it. For this week's weekly Zeite, guys,
please like and review the show. If you like the show,
(52:30):
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I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
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