REPOST: Ep 002 - Is this real Life? - Attention Deficit Hyperactive Politics

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Migraines Will Rock. You can't sit still.
Das Kalai, they always spell 1,000,000.
Voices shout my name. Never boring, never tame.
Aviation fading. Chaotic child.

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Turn the volume up. Take her out in this crazy storm
I can't hide. Hey, Doug, what are we going to
do tonight? The same thing we do every week,

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Todd, try to record a podcast that's.
Great, that's even better than last week.
We're trying. We're trying.
Trying, I mean, we, we're streaming landing things a
little bit this week. We, we learned from last week.
I don't know if anybody noticed from last week's episode, but
it's when I first uploaded it, Iwas kind of quiet because I

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thought maybe my mic was too hotand I kept adjusting it to make
sure I wasn't overpowering Doug.And then the end result was if
you could barely hear me unless you cranked the wall all the way
up. So I, I went in and increased
the volume on that part of the podcast and re upload it.
So hopefully if you haven't redownloaded the last week's

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episode, you can do now and get the, the, the I wouldn't say
improved audio, but louder audio.
But this week I'm, I'm keeping an eye on the, the volume levels
on OBS to make sure that I am not sounding like I'm in the
other room when recording. So.
Yeah, if we can just get a little bit better every week,

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you know, who knows where we'll be in the long run.
I think maybe I need to actually, can I adjust the
volume on the mic itself? Let's see.
Turn that up right there. Oh, like, hey, that's, that's
louder, right? There's an I think you are
louder. Now there's an actual volume
knob on this microphone. And yeah, there we go.

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Now I'm peeking a little bit better in the in the on the EQ
Talk some more, Doug. Todd's Todd's over there
fiddling with his knobs. Yes, playing with knobs.
They're sliders, actually, but that's cool enough.
But now we have I have Doug sentover some some screenshots of
tweets or posts or whatever. Memes and whatnot, just yeah.

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So now that's what you're going to, if you're watching the video
side of this, that's what you'regoing to see.
You're not going to see our faces for podcasting and which
is fine. You don't need to see us to hear
us or understand SO. Yeah, just use the theater of
the mind to figure out what these voices look like.
What do you think of that ADHP logo with the state of?

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Watching the new logo, I love it.
It looks great. I think it's gonna Yeah, I think
it's gonna attract some some listeners.
I. Love it.
We can thank Microsoft Copilot for the AI artwork.
That is what it is. So it was one of the few that
actually got the letters correct.
You know how when you use AI andyou say I want this word on this

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thing and it goes, what are words?
What are letters? Why do I have to use words?
Are you sure this is supposed tobe P?
Maybe it's supposed to be an R or an F?
Like no, no, we want but. For some reason it just has
fingers melted into it. Or like if you're telling to to
create a person, the person always has weird eyes or like a

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weird mouth or like 18 fingers. So, you know, AI people and
people are worried that it's going to take over the world.
When they figured out how to do a proper hand or a proper face,
that's when we need to be worried.
Yeah, what's once it does fingers right?
Run for the hills. So we got a lot to get to this

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week. We have a jam packed episode.
We've got a primary topic, we got news of the week.
And then as always, we'll finishup with a nice What's geek this
week to sort of cleanse our palates politics.
And in case this is your first episode, this is our second one
and this is ADHP, which is attention deficit hyperactive
politics. It's a couple of neuro spicy

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dudes talking the weekly events,trying to just basically vent
our frustrations with the world today.
And and that's and we're, but we're also trying to come with
some positive ideas and solutions to move forward on and
we'll see what happens. Yeah sorry I need to mute my
phone. They just decided to give me a
notification for something. It got excited.

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It's. Like, hey, don't forget to take
out the garbage. So for for those of you that
heard last week's episode, we went over my 5 principles.
One of those principles was to attack crime at the root source,
which means universal health care and a basic income.
Now I came across something interesting today.

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We're recording here on Sunday, March 30th, 2025.
And someone mentioned that Richard Nixon is actually, this
was the cynical historian brought up in a video I was
watching that Richard Nixon actually favored a universal
healthcare and a basic income plan.
So it's it's this is that shocked me because, you know,

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Nixon's one of the great villains in American history,
but he was quite, he was a Quaker and he did have a heart
to some degree. So so basically just put the
thought in my head. What if we could take the burden
of providing healthcare and a living wage off of business
owners? What if you could simply pay
market rate for labor and not worry if your employee can

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afford clean clothes, a place tolive, a hot meal before and
after work, and a way to get to job on time?
So you may have heard of Netflixand Chill, but what if I told
you about Medicare and FAP? Medicare and FAP.
So, so fat in this case is not what your dirty mind is thinking

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of Todd, I mean. Faith is always that like, you
know, the sound your hands make when you know you're you're
shedding your your helmet. Yeah.
Well, in this case, fat means the family assistance plan.
Oh, so this it does, Just like ABC always means British
Broadcast Corporation. In my life, yes, I mean, but

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big. Beautiful, yeah.
But the Family Assistance Plan was a welfare program introduced
by Richard Nixon in August of 1969.
So. So that came out of 69 of.
Course it did Which? Aimed and what it did is it
aimed to implement a negative income tax for households with
working parents. So it was influenced by LB, JS,

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war on Poverty and it it was meant to replace the aid to
assist families with dependent children.
So just a bunch of, there's no fun acronym in that one, but it
was essentially a universal basic income.
And I feel like if Nixon and I can agree on something, maybe
it's actually a good idea. So I, I went in and I looked

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through kind of the history of basic income programs.
We've definitely had, we've had some in America, some pilot
programs, and there's been others throughout the world.
The most consistent benefit of basic income appears to be an
improvement in mental health andthat's really important to this
podcast. And arguably that's a positive

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to every aspect of life. So some examples include in
Manitoba. I just hit the mic, which is a
great move by me. That's OK, I didn't hear it.
Oh, cool. I'll smack this thing around all
I want. We'll, we'll bap the mic.
I, I apologize, I'll I'll see myself out.

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But some some examples include, so in Manitoba, Canada, they had
a program, it saw a decrease in hospitalizations due to mental
health diagnosis as well as an increase in children completing
education through 12th grade rather than dropping out early
to work. In Native American communities
where they kind of reviewed how casino profits have been spread

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out as a basic income to tribal members.
We saw lower instances of behavioral and emotional
disorders and better relationships between children
and their parents. And that right there is just
going to increase education and basically having good citizens.
And then another one I pulled out here is in Stockton, CA.

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This was a recent one. They evaluated the results in
2019. They found that most
participants had been using their stipends to buy groceries
and pay their bills. And again, that's consistent in
all these studies is people aren't frivolously spending
their money on drugs and that kind of stuff.
That's one of the arguments always against the Ubi.
But here, here they used them tobuy groceries, pay their bills.

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43% had fuller part time jobs and only 2% were unemployed and
not actively seeking. Work.
So whether or not the incentive to work diminished during these
times, there was a positive psychological effect on
individuals based on how they felt in having a guaranteed
income each month. Right it's weird it's weird how

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people think, oh, they have a nice cell phone or they're
driving a decent car. They must have money.
Why are they in here? Why are they getting food
stamps? Like you don't know the guy's
story. You don't know that, you know,
they could have lost their job in their house last week or last
month and there's the car they're using is like their
mother's or the phone they have is the, the phone they, they got

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when they still had a job and had a good credit rating.
You know, things that things canchange in 30 days.
You know, it doesn't just because someone has a, you know,
a, an iPhone 13 or whatever the current one is and, you know,
and, and they're driving a, a 2016 car doesn't mean that
they're, they're, they're tryingto, to scam the system make the

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shit can happen. So yeah.
And and most people are not two months, 2 good months away from
becoming millionaires, but almost all of us are two bad
months away from being homeless.Right.
Oh wow, that's a good analogy. I've never, I've never thought
of it like that. And there's, I mean, it's the,
the amount of wealth people have.
There's no way they can spend itall in their lifetime unless

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they give mass amounts of it away.
You know, I think Bill Gates of like 10 years ago gave away a
bunch of money to the to the Washington State Special
Olympics. I think it's actually closer to
a decade ago, but still he gave away millions of dollars just to
help kids who want to play sports.
And I think the best example of sort of philanthropy of that

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sort is Mackenzie Bezos. Like what the media doesn't
cover, and maybe we'll cover this in a future episode, is
she's been giving away her wealth.
Like, right, she got half of Jeff Bezos's money in the
divorce and she's just been giving it away hand over fist to
all these various causes. And the results of them are
actually positive. There's actually good things

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happening because of the monetary investment.
And that's just, and it's stuff that we could do as a country
through higher taxes. But again, the media doesn't
cover the positive results there.
I don't remember her name, but she was a daughter of Roy
Disney. And she was talking about how
like people like myself, they have a an unlimited source of

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income, should pay more taxes than the average person in
America because we have more money.
We should be spending more in taxes because, you know, we have
more coming in. So it should there should be
more going out. And just the bottom line is the
if you are successful in this economy, that means you know the

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the economy fit you, it worked for you, you benefited more from
the economy, you have more to give back.
Exactly. And then looking at looking
there I go punch in the mic again.
Looking at holistically these various Ubi programs, the lesson
appears to be that providing a UBIA universal basic income,

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sometimes called a guaranteed income.
Alexander Hamilton called it a citizen's dividend.
But I like that. Yeah.
Yeah, I think that's a great wayto sell it is that as a
citizen's dividend, you profits exist because of markets.
Markets exist because of people.The people deserve to be
compensated for their value. And, and.

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But what it really does though, what having this guaranteed
income does is it curtails the rat race mentality that most
Americans are caught up in. You know, the reporting of
mental illness is way more prevalent in the USA than non
Western countries, right? We, we can, we can compare it to
Nigeria, which is one of the hey.
Doug, I'll be right back. I have to go do some real quick.

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Yeah, no worries. But we compare it to Nigeria
where we have one of the lower developmental rates, but we have
far less mental health issues. Now some people will argue
that's because they don't have an individualistic approach to
society. They are more of a social
society where, where admitting to a mental illness is not, is

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not OK. It's not socially acceptable to
admit you have 1. So therefore the reporting is
lower. So what studies have done is
they've looking, they've taken alook at things like bipolar
disorder, which have biological markers.
They look at substance abuse, which has actual, you know,
hard, hard numbers. You can see where substance
abuse is being done. And lastly, they've looked at

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suicide rates and that's again, not one you can think.
And So what we see is that the USA leads by far in, in all of
those categories of, of bipolar disorder of substance abuse, of
suicide rates versus the less developed countries that have
more that, that don't have the rat race that we do.

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So, So what I'm trying to, what I'm trying to get at here is
that by having a Ubi, basically people can relax and be
themselves and focus on work that's good and needs to be
done. So any drop in work incentive by
a Ubi is more than made-up for by an increase in mental health.
When people are mentally healthy, we are less likely to

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lose them to mental health disorders, to substance abuse,
to suicide. And then you actually get more
productivity out of them, right?You, we can, we can all deal
with a little bit less human productivity if we're getting
more humans to be productive. And, and this is goes without
saying with AI and automation, which is really taking the
menial tasks away. And how do we take care of

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people once we don't need meniallabor, right?
We all should benefit from the population we're we're a part
of. Absolutely.
So we do have sources for all this.
We'll list those in the podcast description.
Please look them up. You can review them yourself,
make your own determinations, and we encourage comments on the

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It is Todd ADHD rocks, but if you just just search for ADHD

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dot rocks, I'm sure it'll pop upbecause it's I have it coming up
as a podcast on there as well asand I just lost audio.
Oh, you just cut out and you just went, yeah, you went real
quiet. What the hell?
OK, that's weird. And you're coming back.
Now, yeah, with. The job again.
Aren't you? I, you know, I have.
I wasn't touching it. All of a sudden.
It just went all the way down. That's really weird.

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I hate it when it goes off when I'm not touching it.
I was just cleaning it OK. It did.
Man says to do a fireman when herub his head man, it spits in
your. Ass it did it again.
That's fucking weird. That is weird.
Do you have some sort of audio like volume correction on?
Maybe and because I got too loudit turned it down, so maybe

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that's why. Quiet down, Todd.
Quiet. I don't need to be yelling, so
all right, well, what was I saying before I got muted?
You were talking about the the YouTube page.
And oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, ADHD dot rox, Yeah, just search for
yeah, just search for ADHD dot rox.
Or you know what, it would be easier just if you go to go to

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So that's and. Then you're going to like and
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All right, so with that, I'm ready to transition into some

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weekly politics news. Cue the theme for that.
Oh right, we don't have one. I mean, I mean, either one of us
could like go out into sooner and go create theme music for
political discourse and then play whatever it gives us.

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Well, we'll do it in post. Yeah.
OK, so we got quite a few stories to get through here.
We'll see if we make it through all of them.
So first story is actually two stories.
So basically we have the three prominent Yale professors depart
for Canadian university citing Trump fears that comes from the
Yale Daily News. And then we also have a Russian

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scientist working at Harvard detained by ICE at Boston
airport. So what we're seeing here is the
continued chilling effect on American excellence.
Basically, if anybody we, we have proud Americans moving out
of the country to do their work,but we also have brilliant
international scientists and other experts that are being

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that are being treated as if they're as they're as if they're
being suspected of terrorism. So we have.
So if I can get to my story here.
So this is coming from the Guardian.
A Russian scientist from HarvardMedical School has been detained
by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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That's ICE. According to her friends and
colleagues, she works with the Russian scientist can.
And oh, boy, I should have practiced his name.
But it's a Miss Petrova where she was detained at Boston Logan
International Airport and back in February when when she was
coming for a trip from France and she was stopped by US

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authorities, basically she committed an error on a form and
that was enough for them to revoke her visa.
The point being, they are tryingto just terrify people into
thinking that you just don't want to come here because any
kind of mistake could be a reason to subject you to, to
further scrutiny and perhaps detain you.

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It gets worse than this, though.She had a form they're fighting
with, they're working with her. She's probably going to be OK,
but what else? What we've also seen is Canadian
citizen Jasmine Mooney was detained by US authorities and
was held by ICE for two weeks before being released.
We had a German tourist, was a tattoo artist, spent six weeks

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in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement
after being arrested at the Mexican border.
There's been a handful of other detainees, university students
and researchers. We've talked about Mahmoud
Khalil, who was detained in central Louisiana over being a
protest organizer. Also earlier this week, we had
Rumesa Osterk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts

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University who is detained by plainclothes officers in broad
daylight and notified that her visa had been revoked.
Now, do you know why her visa was revoked?
No, I do not. It was because she co-authored
an op-ed March of last year, so a year ago that was critical of
the university Tufts for their response to the student

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government asking them to cut ties with Israel over the war in
Gaza. So that is being spun as she is
pro terrorism. Oh wow.
And this is a this is a woman who went to America after
winning a Fulbright scholarship,completed her masters at
Columbia and then started her doctorate at Tufts.
These are brilliant people that we want working here.

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But the whole point is they don't fit the agenda.
So they're being, they're really, it's terrorism against
them so that they'll self deport, so that they'll stay out
of here. Boy, some people, man, we're
sorry our government's so stupid.
Yeah, and if you read what Trumpsupporters are saying on the

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Internet, they believe anyone here on a visa is living under a
privilege that's being should bedangled on a thread over their
head with a threat to cut them off at any point just to compel
obedience, just to keep them from saying anything critical,
as if as if they are as if they were here as our pets or
something. Oh wow.

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But but they ignore the Constitution.
So the Constitution over severalcases over decades has both
outlined that people in the country, whether they're
citizens or not, are protected by the Constitution.
And that's been expanded over time through subsequent cases to
not just include people who are here legally, but anybody that's

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here whether they're illegal or not, they they are at least owed
due process. So in 19 O 3, SCOTUS held that
quote, an alien who has entered the country and has become
subject in all respects to its jurisdiction and a part of its
population could not be deportedwithout an opportunity to be
heard upon the questions involving his right to be and

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remain in the United States, IE due process.
Fast forward 50 years, 1953, theSupreme Court said once an alien
lawfully enters and resides in this country, he becomes
invested within the rights guaranteed by the Constitution
to all people within our borders.
But expanded to that in 1953, the court added, aliens that a

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separate case added aliens who have once passed through our
gates, even illegally, may be expelled only after proceedings
conforming to traditional standards of fairness
encompassed in due process of law.
And So what we see here is as time has gone on, we have
learned better and we have done better and we have defined these

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rights as anyone within our country because we're America.
Like that's what we that's what we believe it.
I mentioned I already met. So another there's a separate
link. We'll have links for all these
stories in the in the podcast description.
So please look those up. The next story is from ABC News
Museums and parks must remove some items related to race and

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gender. So what we have here is classic
fascist revisionism. They want things that are
supposedly anti American and divisive to be removed from like
the Smithsonian. And what do you suppose that
kind of stuff is, Todd? It's it's probably anybody who
is a darker skin complexion thanthe average European.

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And, and any, anything that makes that might make a white
person feel guilty, right, like,well, we can't talk about.
People, yeah. We can't we can't talk about
segregation. We can't talk about Jim Crow.
But to me that that is America. The most American thing is
improving every day now. We just talked about it in the
last story. We talked about it last week

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with the Maya Angelou rule. Do the best you can and when you
know better, do better. And that's what that's that's
what makes America great. Making it's it's not about
romanticizing our history. It's not about it's not about
saying so that I want to read this highlighted section from
from the story about the museum.OK, So this comes from an

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executive order that Trump signed.
The order said that the exhibitsand programs that it seeks to
remove undermine the nation's quote unparalleled legacy of
advancing liberty, individual rights and human happiness by
casting its success as quote, inherently racist, sexist,

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oppressive or otherwise irredeemably flawed.
So that's the point of the order.
It feels like they we can't mention the things what that
make America seem irredeemably flawed.
But that's what's great about America, is that as flawed as we
are, as flawed as we've always been, it's never been

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irredeemable. For God's sakes, we were the
country of slavery. We were one of the last
countries to end slavery. We saw Haiti end slavery and we
outcast them. We, we, we blockaded them.
We wouldn't let them have trade with us.
And, and Haiti still suffers to this day from choices America
and her neighbors made back in the 1800s, revolving Haitian

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slave revolution. But we still got better.
We got over it. We moved ahead and the next
phase of it was Jim Crow and segregation and again, massive
flaw that we redeem ourselves from.
But the only way we redeem ourselves is by acknowledging it
and doing better. When we know better, we have to

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do better. But that's what's great about
America. It's like, it's like people who
are anti science and they say, Oh well, science is constantly
changing its conclusions and. That's the point.
That's how science works. That is the point.
We learn and we do better. We learn better.
We do better. All right, it's my bad.
Here. Here's here's what it is now

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because we found new information.
Yeah. And it's, it's, it's like Pete
Carroll, the former coach of theSeahawks, the national
championship and Super Bowl winning coach, It's like he
says, you got to get better every day because if you're not
getting better, you're getting worse.
And so I, I submit that the Trump administration, through
this executive order and other actions, they're making us worse

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every single day. Because the most American thing
I can think of is acknowledging A flaw and improving yourself,
improving your country, help yourself, help your neighbor,
help your nation. Any any other thoughts on that
before I move to the next story?No, go ahead.

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All right, we're marching right through.
We're making great time. Hopefully we're not going too
fast for everybody. If you need to, if you need to
rewind and listen again, please do.
Again, this is the ADHDADHP podcast.
We're hyperactive. We're attention deficit.
Zero spicy to to the and. I'm anxious as hell about all
this, so we're we're doing the. Best.

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There's also a lot of stuff on on Why does it keep?
You. Oh yeah, it cut off.
It did it again. It there is a lot of stuff to go
through on the on the on the show notes.
We don't have to go through every single story, at least not
the ones I posted. We can skip some of those.
But yeah, I don't know. I'm getting too loud.
Maybe that's why it keeps cutting itself off.
I don't know how to change that.So.

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It's all right. I've got I've got just a few
more to go. And obviously we're going pretty
quick here. So I think we're doing OK.
So here's an interesting one that's coming off of, I'm sure
if you're listening to this podcast, you're somewhat aware
of Signalgate. We discussed it last.
It it the story basically broke when we recorded our first
episode last week. So this is a follow up from that
just just as a comparison point.So oh, excuse me, so I can, I've

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got all my links up, but I don'thave them in the correct order.
There we go. So I'm going to read the story
from NBC News and and just chimein when you think you know what
the story is about. OK?
A federal worker accidentally includes a journalist on a
detailed message in advance of agovernment operation.

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Does that sound familiar? Yeah, Yeah.
No, that's a seg half, right. Whatever his name is.
Except it's not. It's not.
While that sounds like the case of The Atlantic editor in chief
being added to a group Signal chat by Trump's National
Security Advisor Michael Waltz, and it's actually a Department
of Homeland Security employee who told colleagues she

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inadvertently sent unclassified details of an upcoming ICE raid
to a journalist in January. So same thing, basically the
same thing of accidentally including a journalist on a on a
potentially sensitive but not classified message.
And unlike unlike Waltz and Henseth, who both remain in

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their jobs, the career DHS employee was put on
administrative leave and told last week that the agency
intends to revoke her security clearance, which means she
doesn't get to work in this field at all anymore.
She's got to go find a whole newline of work now.
And it's just, I highlight this story to demonstrate the, the
double standard, the hypocrisy. If you're not in the inner

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circle, you would get busted like this.
We've had there's, there was a military servicemen a year or so
ago who was sharing classified stuff on his like Call of Duty
Discord server with his friends.He's in jail as far as I'm
aware. But if you're part of the inner
circle, they just rally the, youknow, they, they rally around

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you, they start shooting the messenger.
Protect. Protect your own kind of thing.
Yeah, well, and I think it's very telling that that the Trump
administration is calling it a hoax because we've heard them
call plenty of things hoaxes. And if they're all.
And now I just got to assume that everything they've called a

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hoax is as legitimate as this story.
Like I said last week, anytime that Trump says that's a lie,
that's fake news. I I believe it to be true just
automatically, yeah. And I think one thing we can do
here in this podcast is try and be a Trump interpreter.
And I think one thing we've learned now that we can say for
sure is Donald Trump says it's ahoax.

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That means it's true informationthat he finds damaging.
Yeah. And that's how you should read
it. If he says hoax, read it as
direct hit. It's read it as projection.
It's like anytime they say the left has done this, this and
this, they're telling on themselves, this is what we've
done and we don't want to be caught by it, so we're going to

(31:08):
blame them for it. And then furthering our fall
into fascism, our next story is about how Disney and ABC have
been hit with FCC investigation over their DEI policies.
So this comes, yeah, this comes from where did I apparently

(31:30):
don't have the link to that one up.
Let me click on this here. It's all good.
So this this comes from CNN. So in a letter to Disney CEO Bob
Iger, the FCC chair wrote that he wants to ensure that Disney
and ABC have not been violating FCC Equal Employment Opportunity

(31:51):
regulations by promoting, quote UN quote, invidious forms of DEI
discrimination. I don't know what invidious
means. I don't know if they meant
insidious, but yeah, they're basically saying you're not
violating Equal Employment by, by looking for DEI hires, are
you? No, no, no, you just need to,
you just need to hire, hire the first white man that comes to

(32:11):
the door. Don't, don't look any further.
Like to me, Equal Employment opportunities is about expanding
the pool of candidates beyond just the people you know, in
daily life and into the the populations that you might not
be familiar with because there'sgreat candidates there.
It's not about filling a quota. It's about expanding the search.
And So what we have here is an attempt to get Disney to comply.

(32:35):
And we have lots of evidence of people can complying in advance
this. We have law firms that are could
win cases against the Trump administration that are just
going along with what they say. And this is what's really scary
to me, because this is exactly how you fall into fascism, is
when the corporations start complying.
When the law firms start complying, there's not much else

(32:57):
the rest of us can do. Right.
So they're, they're, it's, and again, this is unabashed
fascism, just trying to say no, this is the way that you should
think about the world because how traditionally A conservative
would say you can't tell a corporation how to do their
hiring if they want to look for population, if they want to look

(33:20):
for candidates and in uncommon populations, that's their
prerogative. But now the administration is
coming in here and saying, no, you need to narrow your search.
You need to, you need to hire more people that look and sound
and act a certain way and. Yeah.
Now, what do we do about this? I short of writing your

(33:42):
congressman, and I guess that's really the thing to do for most
of this is to call your congressman, call your
representative, call your senator.
It's I, I did that for the for the first time here recently
with the, the Senate vote to, for cloture on the continuing
resolution that happened last month, called Senator Maria

(34:03):
Cantwell because I had heard that she was potentially a vote
for cloture and just told her, hey, I voted for you every time
you've ever run, I'm never goingto vote for you again.
If you vote for cloture without getting something in return.
Now I'm a, I'm assuming I was one of many that made a similar
phone call because she ended up not voting for cloture.

(34:25):
And, and everything I hear is that calling your congressman
works the best. Calling your representative,
calling your senator, let their inbox, right.
They can ignore e-mail, they canignore notes and letters, but
they, when their phone lines areconstantly tied up because
people are calling in, they listen to that.

(34:47):
So if there's anything you take away from this is an action
people can do, call and, and maybe we can put up a well, if
you, if you don't know how to Google the, the phone number for
your local office, please reach out to us, comment on our
Facebook, send us a message. We'll help you out there.
Yeah. And then lastly, for the news,

(35:08):
for this news, just to demonstrate that the Republicans
are not serious about helping anybody other than themselves
and their cronies. The Republicans are now going,
not only do they want to end theConsumer Financial Protection
Bureau, which is one of the bestthings our government has done
in the last 10 years or however long it's been, but now they

(35:31):
want to. The Biden administration had
capped overdraft fees at $5. Well, they're going to put an
end to that. Excuse me.
So the Republicans are, are out to make Americans ripe for scams
and RIP offs. That's really the whole domestic
agenda of the Trump administration is take away the

(35:52):
regulations, make the world safefor scam artists.
And and even though, like, I don't know if you're aware of
this, but the biggest Medicare fraud in history, or at least at
the time it was, was done by Republican Senator Rick Scott.
Ohio so. Yeah.
During his tenure as chief executive, the company defrauded

(36:14):
Medicare, Medicaid and other federal programs.
The US Department of Justice won14 felony convictions against
the company he was chief executive of, and they were
fined 1.7 billion in what was atthe time the largest healthcare
fraud settlement in U.S. history.
Oh wow. Yeah, and, and while they try
and end the Consumer Protection Bureau, all all while screaming

(36:37):
for waste, fraud and abuse. I think I, I don't know which
Trump admin official it was, buthe was on an interview this past
week where they said he he compared his grandmother, who's
on Social Security. And he said if Social Security
payments don't come in for a week or two, his grandmother

(37:00):
wouldn't complain. He says the people complaining
are the ones committing fraud. He said the the fraudsters are
the loudest and most and most violent complainers.
And I'm thinking, wait a second,is this?
Is this actually like a Freudianslip regarding Trump?
Because who's been more shouty, loudy, crying, crying wolf over

(37:26):
everything than Trump? Like, I think I think Trump
demonstrates that better than anybody else.
I mean, I I do think Trump is the biggest fraudster.
He will. I mean, I think it was him that
said that protesting Tesla is illegal.
I was like, why? They want to.
Try and make it so. The average person can't afford

(37:48):
a Tesla. So who who's who?
Who are you going to come after?You're going to come after
someone who, who spent $1000 in a used car.
Are you going to come after thatperson?
You know? I don't know.
It's just, it's ridiculous. And then have you seen the
video? I don't know what it was for.

(38:08):
It was some news broadcast wherewhere, where Elon was basically,
he was whining. He's like, it's not fair.
He got on stage and he made fun of my company because the stocks
have dropped. Oh, he was talking about Tim
Walz. Yeah, yeah.
He's like, he's a jerk. I'm like OK.
Yeah, I saw a great comparison on that about South One week

(38:32):
Musk is saying that empathy is the is a great weakness, right.
And then the next week, oh, I'm,I'm my feelings are hurt because
he's making fun of my my stock price.
Yeah, empathy for V, Empathy forV, but not for for everyone.
Else the think the one that cracked me up is the audio from
him saying that and then the video is showing him running on

(38:52):
stage with a chainsaw. Right.
So. Which of course, was a nice
little rendition of the Was it the Argentinian president who
was trying to use a chainsaw on stage?
Oh, that way he was. He was poked in front of that
guy. OK, I.
Didn't he was Yeah, he was mimicking it because he's

(39:13):
they're all these. That's the guy.
That's the guy in Argentina who pulled a a crypto scam on his
country, which is also very similar to Trump who's hold a
crypto scam on his own supporters the day before his
inauguration this year. So like didn't didn't Elon have
like a crypto thing happening where he he called that doge as
well? There was a doge coin.

(39:35):
I don't know if that had anything to do with Elon,
because that was, but it might have.
I mean, I remember him talking about it and there was like the
one of the last times I ever tuned into to Joe Rogan's
podcast. He was talking about Doge for
like 10 minutes. I was like, I don't care about
this shit, I'm going to turn this off.
And that was the last time I ever listened to that podcast.
But when he's so nice? Dogecoin Dogecoin is a

(39:57):
cryptocurrency created by software engineers Billy Marcus
and Jackson Palmer, who decided to create a payment system as a
joke, and the value of Dogecoin right now is currently $0.18.
OK, that's funny because he was promoting the hell out of it on
Twitter back when. They all they do is they create
a viral, they create a meme cointo go viral so they can pull a

(40:19):
pump and dump scheme is what they're doing is they, they get
people to buy in right away after they're already they,
they're bought in from initial from initiating the coin.
And it's illegal in a lot of ways, depending exactly how you
do it. But no one is doing anything
about it right now. Yeah, well, so that's the thing

(40:41):
when when people start talking about the department of blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever, whatever the acronym
for DOGE is, I was like Dogecoin.
Why is why is everyone talking about the this Dogecoin thing?
Because that's what that initially thought they were
talking about that talking aboutthis fucking cryptocurrency.
And I was like, did the did the US government just now make that
an official currency of our country?

(41:03):
What's going on? And then I realized it said
it's, it's whatever Elon's in charge of in our in our federal
government, which. Yeah, he named it, he gave it
the acronym that came out to be DOGE because he's he thinks he's
so he thinks he's writing on, onviral success and he just wants
to be hip and he thinks that's a, a clever way to do it.
He likes that it's all on board.He likes that word is what it

(41:25):
is. He's it's it's one of his hyper
focuses. I think because he's like
because he talked about he I think he even talked about Doge
when he was a when he hosted SNLa few years back too.
So it's a, it's like, it's, it'slike, it's just like, it's
obsession with the letter X. Exactly what I was going to say.
It's just like X for him. Yeah, no, it's he named all of
his kids a variation of X, like his trans daughter or her dead

(41:51):
name starts with an X. And then his newest kid, the one
who told Trump he's not the president, also named his X.
So it's it's one of his hyper focuses.
So it's, yeah, he really makes, he makes, he makes all of us
neurodivergent people that are trying to not piss off everybody

(42:14):
around us look bad because it's it's not something we do on
purpose. We don't, we don't do these
things on purpose. And I'm not even sure if he's
doing these things on purpose. He just thinks they're a really
good idea. It's giving him a dopamine hit.
So he's like, oh, this Doge. I like this name.
Doge. We're going to call it.
We're going to use that as an acronym for my, my part of the
federal government and, and, andI'm going to hire these, these

(42:36):
17 year old kids to, to find money for me and, and, you know,
take it away from other people kind of thing.
And then it it it becomes this clown show that hides the true
intent of basically just they'retrying to fire everyone in the
federal government. They're trying to they're,
they're trying to do that CurtisYard in rage thing, which is
retire all government employees.Oh, I, I saw another thing today

(42:59):
that cracked me up and I should probably be posted on, on the if
I haven't already posted it on, on blue blue sky.
I'm going to there is a video and I think it's an AI video of,
of Elon putting on on Cheeto dust under Trump.
I've seen this yes, painting hisshade of orange.

(43:23):
Yeah, using a bag of Cheetos. Well, that wraps up the
political news for the week, andnow we can transition over to
What's Geek this week. What's Geek this week?
And yeah, we did it in less than45 minutes.
Yay. Blowing through it.
Blowing through it. So let me pull up my Google Doc

(43:47):
and which ones did we decide we wanted to talk about?
Because I grabbed a bunch. The critic, right?
I'm definitely interested in hearing what you have to say
about this critic revival. I certainly had thoughts on the
X-Men in the in the multiverse, but I don't want to spoil too
much so so definitely pick out aa couple.
Things besides those we didn't, we mention that the no, we

(44:09):
didn't mention it last week. I I think I talked to somebody
else about it. They they announced in a fight
to other. People, Todd.
They announced last or a few days ago in in a 5 hour live
stream all the actors that are going to be in Avengers
Doomsday. And now it's not necessarily all
of them. It's all that they're announcing
right now. Well, I mean, that's like what,

(44:30):
12 people? Are you saying they announced 12
or there's? They've announced 12 names, 12
or 15 names. Only 12.
I mean I can get the list. Hold on, I.
Felt like that. I felt like that train of chairs
went on forever. Yeah, well, it's because there
was a 5 hour live stream and they were like slowly going down

(44:52):
the line. Let's see here Google Avengers
Jim's day. I did know that Patrick Stewart
and Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen are are coming
back. We can only assume that they're

(45:15):
going to be playing Xavier in inMagneto, but you know, you never
know, they might have something else for him because because RDJ
is going to be Doomsday, he's not going to be Iron Man.
So it's possible these people are coming back to somebody else
entirely, right? Nope.
Yeah, they could do a weird moremultiversal swap here where
everybody's somebody else. So but I I pulled up the IMDb

(45:36):
page full cast and crew and it shows here that James Marsden is
coming back as Scott Summers slash Cyclops.
Rebecca Remain is coming back asMystique.
Sir Patrick Stewart is in fact going to be Professor Xavier or

(45:58):
Professor X Tom Hiddleston will be low key see who else Channing
Tatum is going to be playing Gambit again because we didn't
get enough of his terrible accent in the in The Wolverine
in in Deadpool movie. I loved it.
I loved. His portrayal, I, he looked and

(46:18):
sounded just like what we expecthim to sound like.
But it was, it was, I think he could have pulled a little bit
back on on the accent. It didn't have to be quite so
big. Where is it?
Where is it? Eric Lyncher is, is in fact Ian
McKellen. And so, yeah, it's basically you

(46:38):
want me to go down the list of all the people that are going
that they've announced so far. Now, real quick, do you think
that IMDb has an inside scoop onthis, or do you think that IMDb
is just assuming that they're playing those?
Characters, well, these are all the names that were on that
video, that 5 hour video. These are all the names I I
watched the the abridged versionof the video, which just

(46:59):
basically showed up all the different chairs that they
showed. That's what I saw.
Yeah, yeah. And so we have basically
everybody from the the last Avengers movie, I think minus
Captain America, Hulk and well, basically all the people that
died in the last movie. That was Chris Hemsworth on the

(47:22):
list. Chris Hemsworth is playing Thor
in this movie. Yes.
Anthony Mackie Is Sam Wilson. Captain America, Bucky Barnes,
Sebastian Stan. Let's see here.
Simu Liu is Shang Chi, which youknow, he did that movie.
Winston Duke is come Chanti. Yeah, Chanti.

(47:46):
Winston Duke is coming back. As in Baku from Black Panther
and Baku. See who else look at.
The I saw Sherry was in there. Yes, Sherry is coming back.
Latia Wright, I think is how youpronounce her name.
Latisha Wright. Latisha Wright and then

(48:09):
Tanakhurta is coming back as Neymar.
So Neymar, he was he. He was in the second Black Black
Panther. The one that's right, that's
the. One where, sure, he becomes
Black Panther. Yeah, Kelsey Grammar is coming
back as Beast. We have Wyatt Russell is coming

(48:29):
back as US agent John Walker, Red Guardian is is coming back
with David Harbour. They also have Bever Huh.
Elena Ozol from the Thunderbolts.
Yes, Thunderbolts, yeah, that's the next.
That's the next. That's the next Marvel movie

(48:50):
coming out. This is things coming up in the
next couple months, next couple.Weeks.
Yeah, I've heard, I've see. This is why I say, I don't know
if they listed all the names, because I think part of the
reason they made sure to get those Thunderbolts actors that
are going to be in it listed is because they want to.
I, I, I've heard that that's kind of like they want to get
people interested in the Thunderbolts.
So it's like, oh, they're going to be in Doomsday.

(49:11):
I better see Thunderbolts. Right.
I mean, it's that's a possibility, but I mean, I don't
think that there might be a few like like hidden, they're not
going to show the names until the movie comes out kind of
thing. I'm sure we might.
I, I'm assuming, and I don't know for a fact, but I'm
assuming that at some point we're going to see Deadpool and

(49:31):
Wolverine in there, maybe as a, as a quick little or hiding in
the room, kind of like they did the X-Men in the, in the, in
the, in the second Deadpool movie where everybody was just
hanging out in the room. I do wonder about or about
Deadpool because I have, I have a whole theory about Deadpool,

(49:53):
that Deadpool is so the the the thing about Deadpool is he is
the writer of his own stories. So any Deadpool comic or show or
movie is just Deadpool telling us a story and we don't know if
it's really happening or not. And that's why that's the way.

(50:13):
Like that would explain why his movies are ostensibly set in the
MCU, but it doesn't look exactlylike the rest of the MCU does.
It has some different characters.
Now in, in, in Deadpool versus Wolverine.
That is the first Deadpool MCU movie, period.
So before that, it was still theFox Entertainment X-Men movies.

(50:38):
That's why in the first one you didn't see any of the X-Men
except for the big steel Russiandude which I blank trying a
blank Colossus. Colossus thank you.
He was in it, but that's becausehe wasn't really in any.
He was, but he wasn't a main character in any of the other

(50:59):
X-Men movies. Right, but but something that
the film makers have talked about, especially with the first
Deadpool movie where they have the downed terrier they were
they couldn't specifically use assets from the MCU, but they
were trying to set it up so thatyou could say it was in the MCU

(51:20):
at a later date once once it allcame together, like they were
trying to leave that door open. But ultimately I just think the
Deadpool stuff is just whatever he says happens.
So I could see a companion film to Doomsday of like dead
Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe type of deal where?
Somebody said that that that Doomsday is essentially leading

(51:42):
into Secret Wars, right? And you know, we're going to,
we're going to see, we're going to probably see a little bit of
the dead X-Men versus The Avengers in this movie.
And, and, and to that extent, this kind of goes to the the
Facebook conversation that was had is do you think that The

(52:04):
Avengers are just going to kill off the X, the original X-Men?
And then that's how we set the stage for New X-Men after a
reset or how do, what do you think's going to happen?
There I think it might be just kind of it's going to be more
multiverse stuff where you were going to see like the original
X-Men, probably not going to seeWolverine, but possibly.

(52:25):
I mean, they're, they're not going to lead with that because
they, they want other people that would be like, oh, hey,
they're going to see these otherX-Men characters.
That's cool. We might actually, I don't know.
I'm, I'm hoping that we're goingto see maybe him sitting at the
bar telling Xavier to go fuck himself again.
But but beyond that, I think it's, it's going to lead into a

(52:47):
new team of, of X-Men. You know, we're going to see a
younger version of some characters, kind of like they
did with the days of Future Past.
I think is with the last one or Apocalypse was the last one but.
So do you think a new class of X-Men will show up by by Secret
Wars, or do you think there's going to be a big reset and then

(53:08):
we'll gradually bring in new X-Men in the.
Future what I'm thinking is going to happen is because
people want to see the original cast, we're going to see them at
least at the beginning of this movie or at some point during
this movie. And then we're also going to be
introduced to new versions of those same characters by other
people. Maybe maybe Jennifer Lawrence

(53:29):
may come back as as the younger,you know, Mystique aren't some
of the other the other people from the the the newer version
of the X? Men, because I think it's
important to point out that the Doomsday teaser had none of the
of the New Class X-Men. It had had none of the McAvoy
era. No it did not.
In the gas, which maybe that's just going to be a head fake and

(53:52):
they're all going to be in it aswell, and we're going to have
two generations of X-Men teamingup to bike Doom or The Avengers
or however it goes. Right.
The other thing we wanted to talk about, there's a couple
different things, one of them being The Critic, the TV show,
The Critic from I think was it the late 90s or early 2000s?

(54:14):
It was. It was mid to late 90s for sure.
OK, The Critic was a show that was created by I think one of
the one of the creators of The Simpsons because it's animation
style is very similar. He.
Showed up in a Simpsons episode.Without the jaundice, yeah.
But yeah, he apparently said on on social media that there's a

(54:35):
possibility of a revival with Jon Lovitz.
It's what it says. This is what it says here on
comicbook.com. The Simpsons and Family Guy
might stand at the top of the hill when it comes to Fox's
animation slate, but Springfieldand Cohogs Finest are far from
the only characters that became popular on the network.

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Jay Sherman, AKA The Critic, first debuted in 1994.
There it is garnering two seasons and may many moments
that have become memes online. While nothing has officially
been confirmed, one of the creators responsible for the
original anime series is hintingat reviving that a revival that

(55:19):
might see Jon Levitz return to the role of the titular
character. I actually thought the show was
hilarious because it kind of waslike it came out before Family
Guy and it was kind of doing me the cutaway stuff that Family
Guy's famous for before Family Guy did it.
And it was always kind of a, a, a spoof on the was it The Who

(55:45):
are the two film critics, the tall, skinny guy in the short
Sisco and Ebert? Thank you.
I was thinking, you know, AbbottCostello of, of, of film
reviews, but I mean, literally on film, they were the men on
film. Yeah, they were the, the tall
skinny one and the short fat one.
But, and that's kind of what they look like anyhow.
But yeah, it was a spoof on that.

(56:07):
And but they would show like these movie trailers that were
parodies, like it was like Jaws 27 or just weird stuff like
that. So yeah, I I would absolutely
watch it if they came out with anew version of The Critic.
And, and interesting enough, thecritic, I, I, I looked it up
here real quick and it said it was 1994 to 2001.

(56:29):
And I'm like, I don't remember it being on for that long, but
it was only three seasons. So it's actually been revived
once before. So it had a season in 94, a
season in 95, and then season 3 is in the year 2000.
Yeah, season 3 was like a web series.
If I remember it was on YouTube.But ah, OK, yeah.
Well, YouTube didn't exist yet, but.
Well, I mean, it was online either way, so, but it was a web

(56:52):
series. I remember that.
And, and funny enough, episode 1of season 3 was about the X-Men
and we've got, and we've got Wolverine and Cyclops and Storm
right here in the thumbnail. But yeah, no, it was, you know,
he his catch phrase. It stinks, you know?
But no, it's it's one of the characters that that Jon Levitz

(57:14):
does that makes me laugh and notwant to change the station
because his characters are always kind of hit and miss with
me. And, and he needs something to
do. I haven't seen Jon Levitz in
quite a while. And he's, I, he's, he's, I love
his character in the Wedding singer, which is one of my
favorite movies of all time. I I as far as I'm concerned it's
the greatest ROM com of all time.

(57:34):
What you know and that characteris at the beginning, a Little
Nicky, too. Yes, yes.
Which is one of the worst films I've seen in a theater, I think.
I love that movie. It's so funny.
What's an egg? About 500 bucks.
But no, I that that was one of those movies that when it first

(57:54):
when it first came out on Oh, and I lost it again.
OK, I got too close to the mic and it muted me.
It was one of those DVDs that I would put in my DVD player, in
my DVD player that would just sit there and play me the menu
music over and over again because I'd fall asleep watching
it. And my roommate, can you stop
watching that movie before you go to sleep, please?

(58:15):
Because that music is driving mebonkers.
And yeah, but it's, I don't know.
I there was so much of that movie I really liked because
I'm, I'm still a bit of a metal head, but I was really into
heavy metal at that time that movie came out.
I had long hair. I was, you know, I was still
relatively not fat and. Yeah, that's that's something is

(58:38):
you actually have an era where you weren't fat.
I've been I've been overweight since I was about 8 years old.
I, I was, I was that weird kid who would eat lots of sugar and,
and, and people thought I was a pothead because of the amount of
sugar I would eat. And I know I'm naturally this
weird. But I I've seen your yearbook

(58:59):
photos that you posted on occasion and I'm like, oh, Todd,
he wasn't, he wasn't even fat then his.
Bastard. I was well in the early 2000s at
the time that the show was popular.
Late 90s, early 2000s. I was.
I was maybe $1.60. I was.
That's I was $1.60 in like the fifth grade.
Yeah, so, but yeah, no, I, I, I like to show I, I thought the,

(59:22):
the parodies of the movies that they made fun of were, were
clever. I believe the first two seasons,
the ones that were on TV are available, I think on Hulu,
either Hulu or one of the no, it's on one of the one of the
free free streaming ones. So it's either, it's either on
freebie or it's on like Tubi or,or what's the other one?

(59:47):
One of the free streaming sites.Either way, just look, look up
the critic. I'm sure you'll find it
somewhere. It's available for you to watch.
And did you say would this be a Fox Show again or did they hint
at where it would come back? On I'm thinking if it if, if
it's anything like previous Fox shows, it's going to be like an
exclusive on Hulu. 'Cause I'm just wondering, like,

(01:00:10):
if you want to see this show after you get done calling your
senator and your congressman, you, you know, call, call up.
I don't know who would you call up to to get a, to say you want
to see the critic. I guess just tweet it.
Tweet at Jon Levitz. Let's take a look.
It's on Toby right now. That's what it's on.

(01:00:30):
And they just have, I'm sure they just have the the rights to
the syndication, but. Yeah, they have the first two
seasons on, on, on, on, on, Toby.
And it's it's Jon Levitz, Nick Jameson, Maurice Lamarche, Nancy
Cartwright, Christine Kavanaugh.Oh, man.
Rest in peace, Christine Kavanaugh, if you're not

(01:00:51):
familiar, was the the original voice of Chucky on on on
Rugrats. On Rugrats.
OK, yeah, I knew that I knew. Oh, and or no or was it?
Was it Chucky? Yeah, she was Chucky.
She was also the original voice of the all the moms on South
Park as well. And she, I know she's also, I

(01:01:12):
mean, once you hear her voice, you recognize it. 1000 places.
Yeah, she did all sorts of animation.
I think she was involved in all real monsters as.
One of the Yeah, yeah, she was. She was the one with the giant
lips and the eyeballs. Yeah, she was also the
girlfriend of Ugg on Salute My Shorts.
On Yeah, she played the mail lady.
Yeah, yeah, she, she, she suffered some, some depression

(01:01:35):
issues I think and and took her life in 2000.
And that and that ties back intowhat we were talking about
earlier where people stress the F out and make poor choices.
And I think we can get people making a lot better choices with
the institution of a guaranteed income.
I also, something I meant to mention at the top of the show

(01:01:55):
during that segment was in no, in all the research I've ever
done on a UBII have always foundit to be the case that every
dollar spent towards a guaranteed income has is
multiplied when we get it back in the economy.
It never hurts the economy. It never costs US money as a
nation, you know, we spend moneyon the program, but it always

(01:02:18):
has a compounding effect where you get more benefit out of it
from just from a dollar standpoint in the, in the, in
the GDP or however you want to measure the economy, you get
more for it than you spend on italways.
Right, so there was one more story that I wanted to talk
about before we end the show andthat is the they're apparently

(01:02:41):
Netflix has got the rights to doing a a live action TV series
for scooby-doo. And this is what it says here.
ZYX, the Scooby the Scooby-doo live series we first heard about
last year, is a God damn it. I get it.

(01:03:02):
See. Scooby, Scooby's got you too
excited and now you yeah, they got to tone you down just.
Stop. God damn it.
Walk off with the shit. Come on, knock it off.
I I don't know how to turn that off.
It's it's OK. Absolutely pissing me off.
I'm you know what? Needs a Scooby snack?
I seriously though, I think I'm going to switch back over God.

(01:03:25):
It's going crazy right now. It really doesn't want to.
It does not want the people to hear about the Scooby-doo live
action. All right, so I'm trying to keep
my voice calm because it keeps like turning down the volume and
I don't know if it's the the microphone doing this or if it's
some software doing this or what.
It's it's. It needs to stop though.
Hopefully we don't find out thatI've been just muted this whole

(01:03:47):
time. No, you're, you're fine.
I think what I'm going to do next week, it's a mystery,
motherfucker. Oh man.
This is fun though. This is.
Just it's not fun. This is this is not fun.
This is not fun for me. I don't like this.
I want it to fucking stop. I don't, I don't even remember

(01:04:09):
what I was saying now, because this is this keeps happening.
I'm going to say what I'm going to say is next week, I'm not
using this mic in this capacity anymore.
I'm not using the, the USB side of it because I think that's
part of it. I'm going to, I'm going to hook
it up to my, my, my, my mixer recording system never does this
with that. So I'm going to use that next
time. What I'm trying was trying to

(01:04:30):
say is that it looks like there's the assumption is this
the the live action scooby-doo is going to be akin to the
Riverdale series on The CW, which was kind of a weekly
mystery. Every every week there was a new
new bad guy who is trying to to hurt somebody in Riverdale.
And I mean, it's kind of way theScooby Gang was originally back

(01:04:52):
in 1969 anyhow. So I don't see that as a bad
thing. And I liked Riverdale, so.
I heard good things about Riverdale.
I I never saw it. I I don't really watch The CW.
In fact, I'm a YouTube TV subscriber so I don't even know
if I get The CW. CW You can't find that series on

(01:05:14):
CW anymore. I think you have to go to, I
think Netflix to find it, but it's it's I, I.
That's set in the Archie Comics universe.
Is that the? Case I mean it's it's based on
the Archie comics series. It's it is the Archie's in name
only because the characters are all the all the characters you
recognize. But it's think of like the

(01:05:35):
characters from Archie, and thenyou put them into like like
X-Files or Gravity Falls. Oh, that.
You know, that does sound prettyinteresting, actually.
So it's it's a it's it's the IT has the look of like a clean
cut, like high school from like the, you know, the old days kind

(01:05:55):
of thing that they don't even specify what the the decade is
for the show. There's each episode, excuse me,
each episode's a little weird. And it embedded, you don't
really have like a, people don'thave cell phones in the show.
So it could be, it could take place in the 80s for all we
know, or the 70s or whatever. But based on the clothing alone,

(01:06:15):
it's come, it's it's current daystuff.
But yeah, it's I, I went in thinking this is going to be
stupid. Like this is going to be like
every other CW teen drama. Right, that's immediately what I
think of. Yeah, and it's nothing.
I mean, if there is teen drama stuff in it, because it is ACW,
but it's more than that. It's a, it's a it's a whodunit

(01:06:38):
kind of series where the the theshow that show Riverdale is is
narrated by Jughead, who's played by one of the two kids
who was in Zach and Cody. Oh.
One of the twins, the one of thetwins, yeah.
And so he narrates the whole series, you know, and hi, I'm,

(01:07:01):
you know, my name is drug addict, blah, blah, blah, blah
blah. And it and the weird shit
happens in my town of Riverdale and towards the sea that series.
And they kind of like did some crossover with Sabrina the
Teenage Witch. And because that's also written
by the same people, the. Original Marissa Joan Hart.

(01:07:22):
No, they use, they use, they usethe one from Netflix.
The girlfriend, Yeah. My wife watches that show so I'm
somewhat familiar. With Dude that show was really
good too by the way. I really tried both shows.
If you haven't watched Riverdale, I recommend it,
especially if you like kind of like the kind of like the murder

(01:07:42):
mystery type stuff. Yeah.
And you know, there's like you, you see characters, if you're
familiar at all with, with the Archie and his gang, like
Sabrina's a character you see atsome point during the show.
You see Josie and the Pussycats at some point during the show,
the Groovy Ghoulies. These are all like, these are

(01:08:05):
all cartoons from like the 60s and 70s for me.
So when I watched, it was like, oh, I remember this character,
you know, and but no, I. Those are all the cartoons that
would come on and be like this. This isn't Ninja Turtles.
What? What am I watching here?
Yeah, I think like, like we saidearlier, I'm 10 years, give or
take a couple years older than than Doug.

(01:08:27):
So for me, my childhood resides in the 70s and 80s.
And so a lot of the stuff that I'm looking at, I'm going, oh,
this reminds me of when I was a kid.
And he's just like, oh, this looks familiar.
I kind of remember this when I was young, but this real, this
God damn it brain live action scooby-doo is going to be a an

(01:08:52):
hour TV show. And what I would love to see in
this TV series is I would love it if Matthew Lillard was
Normal's dad, OK? Is he of course played Shaggy in
the in the most famous Scooby-doo film, I think.
He, I mean he replaced Casey Case and when Casey retired.

(01:09:14):
Oh, doing the voice in the cartoon.
Too. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I did not know that. Yeah, no, he, with the exception
of one or two that like had likefamous people voicing the
particular characters. Matthew's been the voice of
Scooby since I, I want to say like the late 90s since like
after he did that move. No, wait.
Well, that movie was like 2000 or something.

(01:09:34):
Or yeah. So it would, it would have been,
Yeah, I think. Yeah, early 2000s to 2010, I
think that's around right aroundwhere the original voice of
Scooby or Shaggy retired becausehe was dealing with some health
issues. Casey Kasem.
Casey Kasem, he, he took over for the, the role of Shaggy

(01:09:56):
because he did such a good job on the live action theatrical
movies like Zinx, you know, and,and he was actually one of the
people that was very vocal aboutthe, the last scooby-doo movie
that came out in Vader called Scoob.
He's like, I don't know why Warner Brothers didn't have me

(01:10:17):
and the rest of the original cast do it for this movie
because, you know, it's, let's be honest, the character voices
they chose were not great. Was that an animated?
Feature. Yeah, it was.
It was supposed to. Like it was supposed to start a
Hannah Barbera universe in movies.
Oh, that would have been interesting.
If it didn't work out, did it? It didn't work out because the

(01:10:39):
you you find out later in in themovie that the bad guy is Dick
Dastardly. OK.
And I don't know if you rememberwho Dick Dastardly is.
Oh, that name rings a bell. Kind of it be the old school
mustache of the handlebar mustache kind of guy.
And he had. The oh, Oh, yes, yes.
The dog that would that would laugh like like that, right.

(01:11:01):
And so the stories surrounds himand his dog to a degree you find
out later in the movie. I don't want to ruin anything.
If you haven't seen that movie, Scoob is what it's called.
It's on Max, I believe. It's not a terrible movie that
it's a kind of an origin story for Scooby and and Shaggy.
But that was supposed to start awhole like, movie universe of

(01:11:25):
Hannah Barbera characters going from Scooby-doo all the way over
to like Blue Falcon and all thisother stuff.
And it didn't do well because, and I believe they didn't do
well in theaters because they had like celebrity voices doing
like Fred, Velma, Daphne and Scooby and Shaggy.
Although Scooby was voiced by the current actor who does

(01:11:46):
Scooby, he's the only person of the entire cast who carried over
from the previous cartoon TV shows and other animated movies
that went straight to video. Frank Welker, the voice of an
entire several generations at this point.
He is he. He was the original actor who

(01:12:06):
plays Fred and has played Fred since 1969.
With the exception of like 3 or 4 movies and in maybe one or two
act animated series, but he's been Fred almost in every
incarnation. I think it's in his contract
that he has to play at least onecharacter in scooby-doo.
Whether if it's not Scooby or Fred, it's something he plays.

(01:12:28):
He played. He played Fred's dad in in
Velma, I believe. And yeah.
He's one of the more famous voice actors.
Yeah, I mean. In everything.
I mean, he's been on the Spectregadget.
Oh yeah, I hate Super friends Spider Man and his amazing
friends. Muppet Babies dude.
Yeah, he was. So you, you, you name all these.

(01:12:48):
The thing is, is the voice he used in Spider Man and his
Amazing Friends, it's the same voice he uses for Fred.
That's his normal speaking voice.
That's the way he talks. He doesn't change anything when
he talks like Fred. He's also the voice of of Ray
stands in the Real Ghostbusters as well as Slimer.
He's Doctor Claw in in InspectorGadget, which is the same voice

(01:13:10):
he uses for sound wave and Transformers and The Cave of
Wonder in Aladdin. So he's he's like a voice over
God. Anytime I meet, anytime I meet a
voice actor, I say tell me a Frank Welker story.
I want to hear something about Frank Welker, and they're always
happy to tell stories about Frank because he's that cool of

(01:13:31):
a guy. And Speaking of cartoons coming
back, I also saw this week that Darkwing Duck is coming back
with the original voice actor aswell.
Really. They're bringing back Darkwing
Duck with Jim Cummings? Cool.
I met him. I met him last year in like 10
years ago. Both times he did Taz for me,
which I, I immediately turned into like an 8 year old kid.

(01:13:55):
I mean, even though, I mean, hisversion of Taz came out when I
was in my, my late teens. Tasmania was a fantastic
cartoon. It's on, it's on Max.
If you haven't seen it, it came out in in like the early 2000s
or maybe the 90s, I can't remember which.
But it's, it's kind of like a just Taz Taz being a Tasmanian

(01:14:16):
devil in Australia or Tasmania. And he is, it's kind of like a,
a family sitcom where he is likethe, the oldest sibling, I
think, or maybe he's the middle child because he has a sister
and a younger brother in that show.
And so I met, I met Jim Cummingslast summer at summer con here

(01:14:39):
in Washington state, Washington state.
Summer Con happens every June atthe Puyallup Fairgrounds or
Washington State Fairgrounds at whatever they want to call it
now. And, and he, he's also the voice
of Tigger and Winnie the Pooh. And he's also the voice of Hondo
Tanaka, one of the one of the characters from from Star Wars,

(01:15:03):
Clone Wars and Rebels. Hondo, he is also a character
you see at the Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland.
And when I met him was like, man, I was just at Disneyland a
couple weeks ago. I heard your voice so many times
in that park is like, oh, yeah, I do this, this, this and this.
Oh, and they just asked me on this is like, yes, I heard all

(01:15:25):
of that. He goes cool.
Yeah, Now he's he seemed like a nice enough dude.
I did find out that recently that he is he is a Trump
supporter. So I I luckily didn't know that
when I met him because I probably would have said
something like I saw. Well, yeah, how about that, Jim?

(01:15:47):
What do you, what do you say? I wonder if he still is given
the light of this second administration stuff.
But. I mean, he, I remember when the
pandemic hit, he was like repeating all the stuff Trump
was saying and people shut him down quickly.
He's like, no, Jim, that is not how that works.
He goes apparently I was wrong. So.

(01:16:08):
But at least he can admit that that's that's a big thing.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, he's I think he's just
trying to like keep himself fromgetting himself into like how
they put it like a social, social cash.
He loses his social you. Know Oh yeah, his he wanted to
keep his social capital. Capital, that's the word I'm
looking for. And but now he seemed like a

(01:16:30):
nice enough dude. He was really cool.
I mean, I spent a lot of money getting an autograph and stuff.
So I'm I'm glad he was nice. But I met him that day and I
also met damn it I just forgot his name.
The guy, he does the voice so goofy and I can't remember his
name right now. Oh yeah, I can't pull those.

(01:16:52):
Yeah, let me either way, he's he's been goofy for like the
last 35 years. Super nice dude, Duke.
Yeah. So yeah, I'm, I'm actually not
surprised that Darkwing Duck is coming back because Darkwing
Duck did make a two or three appearances on the revival of
DuckTales. Aha, OK if you haven't.

(01:17:15):
That's where that momentum comesfrom.
If you haven't seen that, it's on Disney Plus.
I liked it. David Tennant was was Scrooge
Mcduck on that, You know, Which is cool because he's an actual
Scotsman and the original voice he did Scrooge Mcduck was a dude
from a I'm drawing a blank in his name, but he was Wilbur on

(01:17:42):
Mr. Ed. Oh, OK, Yeah.
Now, that was a show that was one of the first TV shows I ever
watched. It was on.
It was on. It was on Nickelodeon.
It was on Nickelodeon in the 80s, and I, that was how I saw
it. I didn't know Mr. Ed had even
existed before Nickelodeon. And Nickelodeon introduced me to
so many great shows. They're all like, it's true.

(01:18:05):
Yeah. I was incredibly lucky to have
the early 90s and late 80s Nickelodeon.
Yeah, Oh my God. In terms of.
Terms of my geekdom. It's so many great shows.
A lot of the stuff I have, a lotof the videos I have on my
computer for like watching when I'm bored are like cartoons and
TV shows from the 80s and 90s from Nickelodeon.

(01:18:25):
And I have a playlist of just like Saturday called Saturday
Morning where it plays all that stuff.
I hit random and it just plays arandom episode that's sitting on
my computer, and that was one ofthe shows I had on there too, so
yeah. It's a great a great way to keep
your childhood constructed in a box and access it when you need

(01:18:46):
to. Yeah, I saw a meme the other day
and I think I posted it where itis.
I was like, I think I figured out why I have I as an adult, I
still like TV shows and things from my childhood is because
that was the last time I was really legitimately happy.

(01:19:07):
That kind of hit a little, little hard.
But yeah, it's very true. I mean, I am, I'm looking, I
watch these things and go, I remember watching this as a kid
and how much I liked it then. And today I still like watching
those things that they a lot of them have aged very well.
Very few shows from my childhoodhave not aged well.
So. Yeah, well that that wraps up

(01:19:32):
what's Geek this week? Do we have anything else we want
to touch on? Do we have, I know we talked
offline about this. Do you want to talk about
potential guests coming up? Well, we, we will be having
guests in the future. I don't know how soon, maybe
maybe next week, we'll see aboutthat.

(01:19:53):
OK. But we'll we'll keep that.
We'll keep that under wraps for now.
We definitely have one guest who's interested and then
probably going to see if we can start getting.
I I coexist in a world of stand up comedy, so I have lots of
access to comics that would probably love to come on here
and vent about politics the way we do.
So you can look forward to that for sure.

(01:20:15):
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