October 31, 2024 • 48 mins
What happens when politics, culture, and some of the world's most intriguing personalities collide on a live stream? Experience the rollercoaster as we react to a Trump rally in New York, with colorful commentary from Tony Hinchcliffe, Dana White, and even Elon Musk making an appearance. We also take a hilarious detour to discuss the hidden gems of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania pizza joints and reflect on the moving story of a financial company transformed by 9/11, underscoring the journey from political fixation to a refreshed perspective.
As we navigate the shifting sands of political engagement, we explore how social media and identity politics have amplified polarization, harking back to a time when politics felt less intrusive in everyday life. With humor and insight, we tackle the legacies of the feminist and self-esteem movements, armed with George Carlin's razor-sharp wit to critique modern cultural expectations. Discover how participation trophies might just be the bane of true fulfillment, and how the quest for happiness has become a complex journey fraught with societal pressures.
Unpack the tangled web of political identity and discourse with us, as we examine figures like Bill Maher who walk the tightrope of political correctness. From personal stories of shifting allegiances to the challenges of expressing political views amidst the noise of media influence, we emphasize the value of friendships that transcend political boundaries. With a nostalgic nod to past elections and a candid look at today's political climate, prepare for a conversation grounded in George Carlin's philosophy that calls out the systemic dysfunctions in American politics, offering a candid reflection on the journey from youthful idealism to seasoned skepticism.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's election season, so we wanted to try something a
little bit different.
While we were recording, thistime Went live on TikTok and
recorded our reaction to theTrump rally in New York.
So I'll be putting clips ofthat on social media all week.
But in the meantime, I realizedthat we didn't properly intro
(00:25):
episode seven, which is not likeus.
And there was one other thingthat I caught while I was
running through the episode wedid not talk about food.
So, in keeping with traditionand bringing food into this
episode, I'm actually going togive you a callback to a
(00:47):
previous recording that we didthat was never released.
Let's just say that recordingtook place in July, and here's
what Scott had to say.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I don't know Le Chouet Le Soleil.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
It's a full-scope food conversation.
How do we start with this?
Okay, the only thing that we'regoing to say about the elephant
in the room, which is whathappened in Butler PA, yesterday
the only thing that we're goingto say about it is Scott, I
think they have a really goodpizza joint in Butler
Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No, no, that's not what I said.
So the shooter the attemptedTrump shooter was from Bethel
Park, which is another suburb ofPittsburgh, and there's a
really good pizza place outthere, shout out.
I can't remember the name, butit's good.
I've never been there, but Iknow by reading Facebook
comments how good a pizza placeit's going to be at.
(01:41):
It's like an innate abilitythat I have that it just
transcends space and time, thatI'm able to sense the way people
are talking about pizza,whether or not it will truly be
good.
And I want to go there nowbecause the guy, the shooter, he
was from there and I think thathe probably ate pizza there, I
(02:06):
think that maybe has somethingto do with it, because that
pizza is just so good.
It got me fired up perhaps babepolitical season, political
season changes scenery at theWhite House and for the podcast
and for the podcast.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
As you can see, we're hanging in our living.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
see, we're hanging in our living room today we're
hanging in our living room.
Because we felt like it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
We felt like it because it's that kind of
weekend.
We've been packing a lot ofstuff in.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yep, and we just got done watching four hours of
Trump rally.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Oh yeah, it was good.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Tony Hinchcliffe murdered.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
He was the best one as.
Oh, yeah, it was good TonyHinchcliffe murdered.
Yeah, he was the best one asexpected, yeah.
Apparently the first one hewent up after the national
anthem yeah, we missed it.
Yeah, we were en route.
En route Because we were outdoing some things Home Depot,
home.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Depot.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Home Depot.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Got to meet our baby great-nephew Grace.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, is that what you call it.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, he's our great-nephew Whoa.
Whoa.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We got a cat freaking out.
She's doing something overthere and it's not going to be
good.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
She's having an allergy attack or something.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
She's having something.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I'm allergic to my cats.
She's having an allergy attackor something.
She's having something.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I'm allergic to my cats, they're allergic to me.
But yeah, no, it was.
That was probably one of thebetter rallies they had heavy
hitters.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
They brought them all out.
Dana White, all the, all theTrump's kids, yeah, all of who
else was out there.
I can't even remember Elon.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Elon.
Who else was out there?
I can't even remember elon,elon, but the guy, the guy, oh
yeah, the financial yeah, thefinancial guy.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, that was he was fired up yeah, he was fired up.
He was very well his companylost 680 people on 9-11 at 9-11.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Holy crap, yeah, that's that.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And they were based in the World Trade Center.
So that's why.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
But talk about crazy luck.
He wasn't there because he wasdropping his kid off at school.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
But then his company everybody donated 25% of their
paychecks.
They got some serious paychecksgoing on in that company
Because they got $180 million togive to their families and
that's a powerful story that youI never.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Why did I never hear about?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
that Usually, when you hear money being raised for
charities, that the other day atthat Al Smith thing there was
like 15 million bucks orsomething and all there was
heavy hitters in that.
Yeah but 180 million dollars.
So that tells you, yeah, theywere doing well with that
company.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It's a big time, yeah , big time, but obviously
they're giving back too, whichis yeah, for sure those are the
kind of millionaires andbillionaires that Trump
surrounds himself with.
I think I don't want to bitethe apple too hard.
Do you know what I mean?
I don't necessarily trust anybillionaires, but Right, exactly
(05:16):
, I'm going to clip in some ofthe stuff from my walk away
video.
But I was a never Trumper foreight years and it was bad.
I had Trump derangementsyndrome.
It was horrible.
I was horrible.
I was a horrible human being.
To people.
Move your camera up, becauseit's because your camera is
clipped right on its clip.
(05:37):
Yeah, I do.
Oh wait, turn your camera backon.
Sorry, I can talk.
Yeah, I'll make it.
I unfriended a lot of people onGreat.
I can talk.
Yeah, I'll make it.
I unfriended a lot of people onsocials.
I was going in with all thestupid memes and repeating all
the false rhetoric and Right, Ididn't engage in any of that, I
(06:00):
just.
He just watched me slowlydescend into insanity and never
said a word.
And let me destroy Bridget.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm not one to censor .
I believe that I'm a big FirstAmendment guy.
You know that about me.
I don't ever get on anybody forwhat they think.
I don't try to fight it.
What's the point in that?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
You're never gonna, you just but before barack obama
, I would have said and Iprobably said repeatedly that I
was in the middle, like I wasvery independent and we were
just young, living life, tryingto get the kids through high
school.
So there was eight years ofbarack ob where things were just
there was no noise.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, like he, that was the last time that there was
a because, yeah, you didn'teven really care about the
political process, you didn'tpay that much attention to it,
you only voted.
It didn't even really matter.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I voted for Barack Obama because I literally felt
like I was participating in amovement for change.
And then, after eight years, itfelt like the same in the
United States and I was like,okay, I'm not falling for that
emotional bullshit anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
See, I guess I just always had that perspective, in
the sense of I didn't notice anydifference between, say, the
Clinton presidency and the Bushpresidency.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But I was also not.
When you're in your twenties,it doesn't matter, because
you're just working.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
That's what I'm saying.
None of it.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It doesn't start to matter until you get into a
position where your money hasmore power, as you're able to
buy a house and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Perhaps, but I just don't think that the political
politics mattered that muchprior.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
People weren't talking.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I don't think that, because that's what, and that's
what I'm saying there wasn'tthis huge gap between the left
and the right.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like for the most part, it waslike the pendulum would swing a
little bit, but not, it wasn'tlike it is now.
Where it's the it's like a widegap right and when?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I yeah, because when Bush Jr won, like I wasn't like
devastated, I didn't get.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
No, there's virtually no difference.
So if you look at thepresidencies of, say, like after
Nixon, do you know what I mean?
It's like a slew all the way upthrough Obama of it's not
radical politics at any point.
Right, do you know what I'msaying?
(08:28):
It's a lot of mixed.
Like the presidency would beRepublican, the house would be
Democrat.
Right, there were vice versa.
There was a lot of balancethere was a lot of balance of
power.
And I don't think that reallythere wasn't any like crazy.
Like I said, the pendulum mightswing a little one way or the
other, but for the most part itjust wasn't that big of a people
(08:49):
weren't riled up about itbecause basically, at the end of
the day, everything that wasgoing to get needed to get done
would get done.
Do you know what I mean?
And so people just it wasn'tthat big of a deal right but
then it all hell broke loosewith social media.
And then when?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Hillary ran, all hell broke loose, because then there
was this move towards I'm withher, I'm with her identity
politics.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And somewhat it just.
I think that it just so manyfactors, because I feel like it
was so I told you the othernight.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
So Scott likes to watch um history channel and all
that stuff in the middle of thenight when I'm sleeping and
sometimes when I have a hardtime sleeping I'll wake up and
just watch whatever's on.
And the 70s were on the othernight and I'm so angry I wish I
could go back that feministmovement in the 70s is the cause
(09:54):
of this spiral of no, it's this, it's the movement of it's the
whole, it's identity.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Movement of it's the whole.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
It's identity politics, all of it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, and it's the beginning.
Really, it takes its root inlike good things like I talked
about, like George Carlinforesaw all this.
The great prophet George Carlinsaw this.
I'm going to start referring tohim like that how, like the
nation of Islam is like thehonorable father, father
muhammad or whatever rightbecause it's.
(10:27):
I'm gonna start saying thatbecause I've started a religion
called carlinism and but I'mgonna start saying that the
great and honorable prophetgeorge carlin taught us that he
foresaw this happening and itplayed out like a playbook where
(10:47):
things like it was an obsessionabout children, self esteem,
the self esteem movement that'swhat he calls it.
The self esteem, this idea thatyou have to feel good or that
somehow your life is of no valuewhich is crazy, because in
(11:08):
trying to promote self-esteem inthis last 25 years, I would say
not 50 we've increaseddepression 50 years
Speaker 1 (11:18):
it's unattainable.
We're participating,participation trophy culture.
When you win and you get atrophy and you feel those levels
of serotonin for the happy,that or the dopamine or whatever
you're getting from winning.
You don't get that with aparticipation trophy it's met.
(11:42):
The kids that are getting theparticipation trophies
understand that it is such atsix right, you're not getting
the level of rush, theexcitement from it and so we've
created depression because bywinning everything, you're
increasing the gap to what ittakes to get happy.
(12:04):
Fuck out of here.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I hate people, I do, but yeah, but no, but that's
what it's all born out of theself-esteem movement and that's
where, like this feeling that,like I said that, and it really
boils down to and he breaks itdown.
He was like, if we can agreethat not every adult is special,
which everybody can agree onnot every adult is special but
(12:28):
yet we check, tell every childthat they're special.
So at what point do they go frombeing special to not so special
?
Yeah, and that's a transitionthat we chose to make everybody
feel special, regardless ofwhatever.
When this?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
and like I said, and when you're transitioning into
an adult the self is a big oldnobody in the adult world.
The need to feel special.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You start moving the goalposts on what special it is
and, like I said, with the wholeself-esteem thing, that's what
this really born out of, in thesense of that you deserve to
feel good all the time, as your,your level of happiness is your
value in the world, which isjust not the way that it is.
No, you're not going to behappy all the time.
(13:19):
You're not going to be feelinggood all the time.
The the world is a harsh, cruelplace.
Why there's drugs and alcohol.
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Which we're going to be doing in an upcoming episode,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And the great and powerful prophet George Carlin
tells us in Complaints andGrievances, chapter 1, verse 12.
No, I just wanted to say that.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Sorry, big Ed, I'm working right now.
Big Ed, big Ed, if someone elseis live, I'll come over later.
Boys, big Ed, I need to beworried.
Big Ed, no, no, he's part ofthe AFS family, so let's talk
(14:11):
about that, because we are goingto get into it a little bit
Internet groups.
We're live on social media sosome of my family might be in
here.
I don't have my glasses on.
I cannot see the comments.
It could be a total shit showin the comments right now.
I have zero clue.
I don't need I'm not saying Idon't need mods, but we're just
recording our podcast right now.
So if someone shuts us down,we'll go into our camera and
(14:33):
record from our phone and y'alljust won't get to see it.
So if you don't behave, that'son you.
In the meantime let's talkabout.
so I don't want to get too farin the weeds on how we got here,
because that's part of otherpodcasts for sure but
essentially, like march of thisyear, we started putting into
(14:55):
motion a game plan for scott tobecome a stand-up comic, alana b
to become a content creator andthen the both of us to have a
podcast.
So here we are.
However, after so, we came backfrom Nashville in what end of
April?
And that's when we had enoughcontent to start putting things
(15:19):
out in social media.
And so we and so I was Ifinally gave in after years of
saying I'm never going on TikTok, it's a propaganda machine, I
don't want to be there.
And I got on TikTok and one ofour first lives.
Everybody's who you're votingfor, who you're voting for.
It wasn't even a political live.
(15:40):
It was just like me being liveand was like I'm Switzerland.
I'm Switzerland.
I'm Switzerland because Ididn't want to jeopardize the
future of our brand by makingany public statements on who we
were voting for.
I don't, I'm not here toinfluence anybody else's vote.
It's none of my business whoyou vote for and I don't feel
(16:02):
the need to be liked byeverybody.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I think gilded trash probably speaks more to the
right than it does the left, andI'm not picking and choosing
yeah, nowadays yeah yeahnowadays, just because it's, I
think personally to me assomebody that's probably, if you
look at my politics, likereally break it down.
(16:26):
I'm actually and I'm not goingto share them here because it's
pretty extreme, but I'm probablyextreme left, leftist politics,
like actually I believe in nopolitics.
I'm truly an anarchist in thegreatest sense of the word.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
All that making fun of me you did on previous
episodes of the podcast.
You're the anarchist, oh no.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, no, yeah, no.
For real, though, and I couldquote there's one.
One of my favorite things islike anarchism, whatever, but
anarchism is the freedom fromgovernment, the freedom from
religion, the freedom fromcapitalism.
Anarchism is the freedom fromgovernment, the freedom from
religion, the freedom fromcapitalism, and based on the
free grouping of individuals andideas to create a better
(17:10):
society without any of thosethings, which is extreme leftist
ideology.
However, in a practical sense,I also realize that's totally
unobtainable.
That's not the world that welive in.
That's a fantasy.
But what I believe in isfreedom, ultimate freedom for
(17:38):
everybody.
But now the left has totallybeen hijacked by people that
want less freedom, they wantcensorship, they want censorship
, they want control, they wantall this we'll call it like
virtue signaling type stuff, andthat's just not what I
represent at all.
So I'm so against that.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
That's why I'm voting for Donald Trump that's exactly
and I think that's how I gothere.
Like, my ideology as far asliving, mine has always been
live and let live.
I don't care about your sexualorientation, I don't care about
your educational background, Idon't care about what money you
have or don't have.
(18:23):
If you are are a real humanbeing, then I'm going to gel
with you, no matter what yourpolitical beliefs are.
If I believe that you'rebrainwashed or that you've been
duped by propaganda, we'reprobably not going to be friends
anyway, because I like tosurround myself with intelligent
people.
That's neither here nor there.
(18:45):
That's not a left or right thing.
There are people that arebrainwashed to believe a certain
thing on the right.
There are people brainwashed tobelieve a certain thing on the
left.
It has nothing to do withpolitics.
Per se, People are easily.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I've often and again, to quote the great and powerful
prophet George Carlin, thatlike this whole thing, this shit
that we shuffle around everyfour years, and powerful prophet
George Carlin, that like thiswhole thing, this shit that we
shuffle around every four years,is meaningless.
This country was bought andpaid and sold, bought and paid
and sold a long time ago, boughtand sold and paid for a long
(19:20):
time ago.
And it's a big club and we'renot in it and this Hold on a
second.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Sorry, continue this.
You can continue that, diannaChen.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
But yeah, so I view it as like it's two sides of the
same coin a lot of times andI'm Mexican you care to share
what you are.
You're not Mexican.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I'm 52% Irish, 24% Polish 2% Balkan Greek, 0.5%
Asian, 0.5% Mongolian.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
But the bottom point is, there's nowhere in there Is
there any sort of Hispanicheritage.
And the other side of that too,though.
The funny part is, though wetalked about this before you get
mistaken.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Always, people think I'm Latina all the time.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
So much so a truck stops when we're around people
that don't speak English andthey see her and they're in a
situation where they're tryingto communicate to somebody.
They often lean to you Becausethey're like here, looks like a
lady who speaks.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Spanish and I know, sorry it's not me.
I wish I did and I feel stupidfor not pursuing another
language.
I took german in high school,but yeah, like I'm, just
something I gotta do I'd like tolearn german.
German's easy to learn myancestral language my child is
learning german and and Spanishand French all at once.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
In the communist revolutionary bookstores in the
1960s you could get copies ofanything you wanted to read in
multiple languages.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
And you only know this why.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Eric Weinstein.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The great and powerful.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
The second great prophet yeah, no, I.
Eric weinstein is one of myfavorite people to listen to
very smart.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
He's a very smart guy and don't be embarrassed about
that.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
He's very no, I'm not embarrassed, but back to social
media back to social media andpolitics so how did we get here?
Yeah so how do we get off onthat?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
again in.
We were saying that we wereSwitzerland politically and then
, I don't know, it was like itwas a crazy series of events
because there were things that Iwas was putting on the book of
faith that we're not getting anytraction.
And then, I think right afterthat, the article came out about
(22:08):
zuckerberg admitting that theywere suppressing some right
ideologies which I wouldn't haveconsidered myself right even
then.
And then, whenever the attempton Trump happened, I was upset
because I didn't, because Ididn't think it was a lone
individual.
(22:28):
I believe that it's coming fromsome powers that be politically
and it's that's just my opinion.
Obviously, this is just forentertainment.
However, when I saw people thatI actually thought that I
respected and that I thoughtthat I liked and that I thought
that I cared about, saying thatthey were sad that the person
(22:53):
missed problem on our hands thanwho was going to be the
president, and it is thebreakdown, it's so serious, the
breakdown of american societyand the brainwashing that's
happening through the propagandaof the mainstream media.
And I had been deprogrammedfrom mainstream media for the
last four years because oncebiden won, I turned off the news
(23:16):
.
I was like I'm done with it.
I had been drained.
I was sick, and tired anddrained of all the emotion that
was going on.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
To me, I just think this is just a continuation of
basically a big game thatthey've been playing for about
60, 70 years, and this is justlike getting to the they're
finally seeing results.
It's like the final, they'refinally seeing results of things
that they put in the work forlong, long ago In terms of
brainwashing and stuff like that.
(23:46):
The seeds were planted long ago.
And no, I firmly believe that.
You know that I don't trustanybody.
I don't trust the government, Idon't trust business.
I don't trust anybody.
Yeah, I don't trust anybody.
I don't trust any of it, noneof it.
All those people, the medianone of them.
You shouldn't believe any ofthose people.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
But so, after being so like, radically left for
eight years, it felt, it felt.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I don't think you were radically left, I think you
were radical.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
but your ideals weren't radical left ideals.
You're right, because I'm I'vealways you were just I don't
know how to say.
You weren't radically left inyour opinion, you were radical
sure in the sense, in yourfervor in my fervor, in my trump
derangement syndrome, which wasjust against him right to do
(24:45):
with politics correct, correctdating back to 1993.
You could ask me my stance onabortion and I've always been
pro-life for myself butpro-choice for anybody else who
needed it.
Once it became birth control, Iwas done.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I was done but the thing is again, and that all
comes out of this, again,abortion.
All that stuff comes out of theself-esteem movement which
comes this phrase, sanctity oflife right, which the great and
powerful prophet george carlintalks about often not a
political episode.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
This is a george carlin.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
And no, because it applies so well that this term
sanctity of life is what itbasically.
We get to pick and choose whichforms of life we think are
sacred and we get to kill therest.
And we made the whole fuckingthing up, and it's made up, and
here we are, and so even thataside, and so even that aside.
(25:40):
But the point being, with allthat talk of left, whatever,
like most people, for most ofour lives we lean left on some
issues, right on others,socially probably more liberal,
fiscally more conservative, morelike those policy In the 90s
(26:00):
would have been calledcompassionate conservatism.
Yeah, and even like theDemocratic Party of, say, the
1960s or 50s, that was more.
The bar is so far been movedthat if you were in the center
before which is where I wouldsay that we were politically if
you just line up our idealsbecause there was enough
(26:21):
offsetting, you would say wewere in the center before, which
is where I would say that wewere politically.
If you just line up our idealsbecause there was enough
offsetting, you would say wewere in the center.
Nothing real crazy on eitherend.
Nothing real crazy on eitherend.
You didn't even see what I did.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Rage bait.
I said I was looking in thecomments.
Somebody's wanting to know ifit's.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I said nothing real crazy, just it.
I said nothing real crazy, justit.
But no, we didn't have any real.
Like I said, there was not realany outliers.
It was very centerish that sofar that even people that were
(27:00):
Democrats who sometimes votedconservatively, that whole
branch of the Democratic Partyis gone, the center's in the
middle, like if the center islike way out there somewhere now
.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
So even if you were left before, the bar has been so
far moved that you now fallunder this umbrella just because
their politics have gotten sofar left, like in terms of just
fringe yeah, fringe for sure andand I've seen a lot of good um
social media posts about thatrecently and a lot of people in
(27:37):
that realm are being referred toas libertarians, but it's not
the true libertarian sense ofthe word.
It's just like the new word forthe people who live in that
space that you just described.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Bill Maher said it best, actually, and he is very
critical of the left.
We talk about this all the time.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
He's critical enough of the left.
But my problem with Bill Maheris that he puts jokes too far,
to where they're not funny.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
We're not here to debate Bill Maher.
All I'm saying is he's knownfor being left, but he is
critical of the left.
That's what I'm getting at isin terms of popular left people.
He is one of the few thatcriticizes the far left right
which the I'm saying.
Nobody on the left does muchcriticism, so he is one of the
(28:28):
few.
Regardless of any of that, hesaid don't become so tolerant
that you tolerate intolerance,and that's what the left has
really done right like with thepalestinian things on campus.
Do you know what I mean?
Like they become so tolerantthat they now tolerate other
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people being intolerant againstthings that should they right,
you should be intolerant against.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, exactly, you should be intolerant against,
yeah exactly, and it's just acrazy flip-flop and that's how
we ended up over here, slightlycenter of left.
But so there was and I'vetalked about this before in
(29:18):
previous videos and stuff likethat, and it's not blowing smoke
there was couple of contentcreators that made me feel
comfortable to come out of thepolitical closet per se, as
actually once I decided that Iwas voting for Trump.
I saw the Theo Vaughn interviewwith Trump interview with Trump
(29:44):
and actually and I've said thisbefore, if you've heard a
couple of my videos, you willhave heard me say this I felt
like I was in the upside downwhen I watched that video
because I didn't realize howmuch humanity Trump really had,
and I was very he seemed veryhumble in the interview.
I said it before, I was veryproud of Theo Vaughn for not
being like a goon, like hesometimes tends to be.
He was just enough to make itfun and entertaining.
(30:04):
He asked 30 questions.
He asked some edgy questions,which I thought was cool too,
but what really flipped me wasseeing creators like John Paul
King, who is black and whobasically I don't want to say it
(30:28):
the thing is okay to be annoyedby somebody just because
they're human, and if they'reblack it's okay to say it out
loud.
It's not okay to hold yourfeelings just because of
somebody's race.
If I'm pissed off at somebodyat work, their race doesn't hold
me back from saying that theydid something wrong at work.
So why, in social context,would you hold back on saying
something?
Because just because ofsomeone's color and that's where
(30:50):
the whole censorship comes inlike I can't get mad at somebody
on social media because raceautomatically becomes the issue
even when it's not, and that'sutter bullshit what I was gonna
say is the reason that you feltuncomfortable about saying all
that stuff is because the leftis much more critical if you
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don't go along with everythingthat they say you're cut off
immediately you can't disagreeon one thing out of the whole
package.
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
It's all or nothing.
It's a zero-sum game.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Exactly.
I've been called every name inthe book I have, but I deserve
it.
Because I did that to otherpeople whenever I was radically
left, I can take it.
I'm not being called namesdoesn't bother me, because I'm
very confident in who I am Like.
I know I might go a little hamsometimes, but just because
(31:47):
people need to be put in theirplace, it's not because they
hurt my feelings.
And you're exactly right,though.
Once I came out as mega, I wasshut off from certain people.
This one bitch had the nerve tosay to me be careful what I say,
because she was on the fencewith me.
If you're on the fence with me,you were never my person to
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begin with.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
But this brings it to a greater point of.
I've never cared what myfriend's political beliefs are.
Do you know what I mean?
I don't care what my friend'spolitical beliefs are.
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I don't care what my friends' political beliefs are,
but I use it as a gauge to seehow intelligent they are.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Yeah, but I'm saying like, for example, if I disagree
with somebody's, if you're myfriend, you're my friend, even
if you told you could tell meyou're voting for Harris.
I don't care, right.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
That doesn't You're mad at somebody for voting for
Harris.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, I don't care and I'm still going to be your
friend because chances are guesswhat?
I don't talk about politics, soit's not even going to come up.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Exactly.
So, if you don't tell me whoyou're voting for, I'm not
asking.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah, because I don't care.
I don't care and but to yourwhat I care about is how do I
want to say it?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Correcting misinformation, and I'm very
passionate about correctingmisinformation, and so I do get
a little mouthy about that.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
But to your point, though I'm trying to tie this
all together here.
Is that?
So you're talking about peoplesaying but that doesn't happen.
It only happens on one sidethat people would be so mad that
you say to your friend, becauseyou're voting a certain way,
I'm not going to be your friend.
(33:30):
You know what I mean.
That doesn't normally.
That's not normal.
You know what I mean.
That shouldn't be anybody'sdisposition.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Matter of fact, the couple of friends, but you only
see it on one side.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You don't see it.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
A couple of friends that I did have that were Trump
supporters when Biden won.
After the election theyrefriended me and we talked
again.
They just didn't want to hearme on and on about the election.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
And that's fair.
Like you don't want me poppingup in your feed, I'm cool with
that.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I'm not saying that every person on the left is like
that.
I'm just saying that all ofthat kind of behavior comes from
one.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
No, this was people on the right that unfriended me
during the Biden electionbecause there was no hard
feelings.
It was political discourse.
We didn't agree politically,which was cool, it was fine, but
afterwards we were adult enoughto come back around.
There are a few people whonever came back around and, as
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far as that goes, like thepeople that were mega, that I
cut off years ago, that I stillhaven't talked to.
I watched them be shitty humanbeings shittier than I've ever
been and I've watched them bemean, so like I should have
never been friends with them tobegin with.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
That's just I mean for sure People do that on both
sides on both sides.
Not anymore, though from theright.
No sides.
Not anymore though from theright.
No, because they got themessage and that's what I was
saying.
Now you only see that come fromthe left side.
Yeah, and not all left peopledo it, but I'm just saying the
(35:13):
most like vitriolic, hatefulstuff comes from that side.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
The most misinformation, the most ad
hominem attacks.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I'd say there's probably equal misinformation.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah, I would agree with that.
There's misinformation on bothsides.
But if you are so unintelligentthat the only thing you can do
is spew ad hominem attacks, andif you don't even know what that
means, then you're not.
Don't talk to me Like.
I want to debate like.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
I know, but that a lot of people may not know what
that means.
Just tell people what it means.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
It's personal character attacks, but you
should be smart enough to beable to Google it If you don't
know what I'm talking about noteverybody that we're speaking to
is some of our listeners areage hindered ad hominem wasn't
invented with the internet I getthat, but I'm just saying just
(36:11):
share with them however.
What I'm really getting outthere, though, is that a lot of
people they don't have anythingelse, they just want to like
just somebody said rage baitearlier.
They just want to rage bait andbe weird and say clownish
things that, like, don't evenmatter in the con, like, at the
(36:32):
end of the day, you can calltrump every name in the book a
it doesn't hurt him and b itdoesn't impact the policies that
are going to be impacting ourlives.
It doesn't even make sense, andthe emotion behind it is
(36:52):
getting a little exhausting too.
I can't wait for this thing tobe over yeah, I'll be happy.
I don't, I'm not not the emotionfor me, the emotion of watching
people be mean no, I get it.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I'm just saying the whole process of it is
exhausting for the country andthe people in it.
You know what I mean.
It's not fun.
I'd be very happy if we couldfigure out an alternative, but,
as the great and powerfulprophet George Carlin has told
(37:26):
us, that shall not be.
We're fucked.
Yeah, that's.
The bottom line is that humansare horrible.
There's no real way to managethem, there's no way to really
manage any of it, and that it'sjust all constantly falling
(37:48):
apart, even if you get it towork for a little bit.
That's the sad reality doom andgloom person that's what the
great and powerful prophetgeorge carlin taught us.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
So now, all right, I need to talk about my aff family
for a minute because that soafter I.
So I think I started followingJohn Paul first and then, I
think, probably Mama Taut andOfficer UD I went after because
I had already known who theywere on Facebook.
Not even gonna bring up MamaTaut right now, don't get me
wrapped up in any of her dramamy husband's you can't see Scott
(38:23):
, but he's going dark over here.
He's got his head up over hisface.
He's hiding.
He doesn't want to talk aboutthat.
And then I saw I saw a stitchor a duet with Austin and Ninja
and that was it for me.
As soon as I found Austin, Ifelt like I finally found my
people on TikTok.
And after that you're a weirdo.
(38:46):
After that it was like it wason because, bringing it full
circle, we're talking aboutpeople on the left being mean.
When I first got to TikTok, Idid the follow trains.
I was putting out three, fourvideos a day.
I understood the homeworkassignment, right, kids.
(39:07):
So that's a TikTok thing.
You're looking at me like I'mcrazy, but I wasn't getting the
engagement.
I did lives.
I went into people's lives.
I probably spent $200 droppinggifts and everybody's and not
like nothing, found Austin, andI think the AFF was just blowing
(39:29):
up whenever this happened,cause I came on right as Austin
fucking Foreman was trending andI started following those
people and the AFF hashtagbecame a thing.
And now do you ever not go tochurch for a long time and then
you go back and everybody's justoh hey, we love you, we miss
(39:50):
you, we haven't seen you.
That's what it feels like for me.
It feels very emotional, like Icame back to church after a
long time yeah, I see whatyou're saying for sure.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
No, I'm just thinking because I don't know, I don't
get that same feeling going backto church.
But I understand what you meanby that feeling.
Right, you know what I mean.
Like, for me it's somethingdifferent.
Like I have an uncomfortablefeeling with that.
But I understand that people.
I can relate to that becausethere was a time in my life
(40:27):
where that would feel viable.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Because it's like a family welcoming you.
It's like we talk about goinghome.
That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
It doesn't have to be church Going home.
But you haven't been home for along time and then all of a
sudden you come back andeverybody, it's like you didn't
miss a beat, like you were nevergone, except for these.
People never knew me before,when I was on the left.
They are just meeting me now,right, but it's, it doesn't
matter.
All none of that matters,because we all vibe and click
(40:58):
and get along and support eachother and there's like little
movements popping up everywhereof this charitable thing and
this cause I.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
I have a chart here.
It's my favorite chart.
It shows your participate.
I'm teasing, I just wanted tothrow that in there, but yeah,
no, that's.
The thing is that one side isdefinitely more the side that
says they're more welcoming.
Isn't that welcoming?
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Not welcoming at all.
They're only welcoming if youadopt.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Into that's the whole idea is that you're only
welcome if you accept theseexact parameters of the
relationship.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Welcome in the light.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
All are welcome in the light until you're not, but
that's just it, though is again,it's like the whole, like
they're claiming one thing, butin reality they just practice
something different yeah so what?
Yeah, I got a million thingswhat else do you want to talk
about?
What was your?
Who did you?
Who was your first person thatyou ever voted for?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
the first person I ever voted for, if you don't
include the mock election in1992, where I voted for Bill
Clinton because I was onlyBarack Obama.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
No, it's funny.
I remember voting in my mockelection when it was I guess it
was the same one Clinton, but Iwas only in whatever grade.
But because I remember thepeople that were playing like
the people.
You know how you had studentsand part of it was is if the
student was just really goodthey could make one of the
(42:34):
crappier.
For example, I think ross perotwon in our school because the
kid that was playing ross perotin the little fake debate was
just so much better than theother kids that he won in the
school.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Because they were like voting off, because they're
kids I loved ross I love fakeelections in schools oh yeah, so
the first person I ever votedfor was brock obama oh, for real
.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Yeah, like in a real election.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Yeah, I wanted john kerry to win, but I didn't, and
I cried like a little baby whenhe lost.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
I think I voted for Al Gore my first time Al Gore.
Yeah 2000 election.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
I don't really like again.
I wasn't into politics, I was asingle mom with a lot of shit
going on and I didn't care aboutany of that.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I think that we could vote.
I don't remember.
I don't remember Al Gore, alGore, because I would have been
yeah, yeah, I voted for Barack,hillary, joe and now Joe.
(43:52):
I voted for Gore, who ranagainst George Bush in 2004?
Kerry.
So Gore, kerry, obama twice,regardless.
Anyway, let's, we can wrap itup here.
Obama twice, regardless.
(44:13):
Anyway, let's, we can wrap itup here.
But no, I had a couple morethings.
What was the first memory thatyou had of an election going on?
You remember any from your kid?
Because the reason I'm sayingthat is because I remember when
I was a kid.
I just remember all the MichaelDukakis commercials.
Yeah, I do remember MichaelDukakis, and I just remember.
I don't know why, but thatsticks out in my mind.
Yeah, and Dan Quayle.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
For some reason I remember they were like making
fun of Dan Quayle.
He couldn't spell yeahsomething.
Potatoes, tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
No, that was W with the potatoes, I think was it or
was it dan quayle?
Speaker 2 (44:51):
I thought it was dan quayle.
I don't remember the great ohdebate.
They called it the great tatodebate the great potato famine
see, you did, your so my, ofcourse.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
My grandma always talked about like elections back
in the day yeah, my parentsweren't political, so I didn't
neither was she, but she justremembered stuff like that
because it was history right itwasn't the politics of it, it
was just the history of it butyeah, the only thing that I'm
gonna need you to come in andrecord is the come into the
(45:29):
studio and record.
We don't have a studio comingnot tonight, but you're gonna
have to get your quote.
You're gonna have to get a goodgood politic, politic, politic
and to quote the great austinforeman Ballots for the ballots.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
So here's a little segment I'd like to call Scott's
Thoughts.
Scott's Thoughts and mythoughts are so.
You may have seen this thingwith Joe Biden, where he said
that he was referencing thewhole Tony Hinchcliffe thing,
where Apollo garbage or whatever, and he said that the only
garbage floating around wereTrump supporters.
(46:11):
And I just like to say the onlygarbage floating around is the
steaming pile of bullshitpoliticians in Washington, a
town filled with half-witbureaucrats and horrible people.
That's the only garbage outhere.
There's a lot of garbage, butwhere does it come from?
(46:31):
It comes from all of us.
That's what the system produces.
To quote the great GeorgeCarlin Garbage in, garbage out.
This is what we got folks.
This is the best we can do.
It's election season, so we wanted to try something a
little bit different.
While we were recording, thistime Went live on TikTok and
recorded our reaction to theTrump rally in New York.
So I'll be putting clips ofthat on social media all week.
But in the meantime, I realizedthat we didn't properly intro
(00:25):
episode seven, which is not likeus.
And there was one other thingthat I caught while I was
running through the episode wedid not talk about food.
So, in keeping with traditionand bringing food into this
episode, I'm actually going togive you a callback to a
(00:47):
previous recording that we didthat was never released.
Let's just say that recordingtook place in July, and here's
what Scott had to say.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I don't know Le Chouet Le Soleil.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
It's a full-scope food conversation.
How do we start with this?
Okay, the only thing that we'regoing to say about the elephant
in the room, which is whathappened in Butler PA, yesterday
the only thing that we're goingto say about it is Scott, I
think they have a really goodpizza joint in Butler
Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No, no, that's not what I said.
So the shooter the attemptedTrump shooter was from Bethel
Park, which is another suburb ofPittsburgh, and there's a
really good pizza place outthere, shout out.
I can't remember the name, butit's good.
I've never been there, but Iknow by reading Facebook
comments how good a pizza placeit's going to be at.
(01:41):
It's like an innate abilitythat I have that it just
transcends space and time, thatI'm able to sense the way people
are talking about pizza,whether or not it will truly be
good.
And I want to go there nowbecause the guy, the shooter, he
was from there and I think thathe probably ate pizza there, I
(02:06):
think that maybe has somethingto do with it, because that
pizza is just so good.
It got me fired up perhaps babepolitical season, political
season changes scenery at theWhite House and for the podcast
and for the podcast.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
As you can see, we're hanging in our living.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
see, we're hanging in our living room today we're
hanging in our living room.
Because we felt like it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
We felt like it because it's that kind of
weekend.
We've been packing a lot ofstuff in.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yep, and we just got done watching four hours of
Trump rally.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Oh yeah, it was good.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Tony Hinchcliffe murdered.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
He was the best one as.
Oh, yeah, it was good TonyHinchcliffe murdered.
Yeah, he was the best one asexpected, yeah.
Apparently the first one hewent up after the national
anthem yeah, we missed it.
Yeah, we were en route.
En route Because we were outdoing some things Home Depot,
home.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Depot.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Home Depot.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Got to meet our baby great-nephew Grace.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, is that what you call it.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, he's our great-nephew Whoa.
Whoa.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We got a cat freaking out.
She's doing something overthere and it's not going to be
good.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
She's having an allergy attack or something.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
She's having something.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I'm allergic to my cats.
She's having an allergy attackor something.
She's having something.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I'm allergic to my cats, they're allergic to me.
But yeah, no, it was.
That was probably one of thebetter rallies they had heavy
hitters.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
They brought them all out.
Dana White, all the, all theTrump's kids, yeah, all of who
else was out there.
I can't even remember Elon.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Elon.
Who else was out there?
I can't even remember elon,elon, but the guy, the guy, oh
yeah, the financial yeah, thefinancial guy.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, that was he was fired up yeah, he was fired up.
He was very well his companylost 680 people on 9-11 at 9-11.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Holy crap, yeah, that's that.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And they were based in the World Trade Center.
So that's why.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
But talk about crazy luck.
He wasn't there because he wasdropping his kid off at school.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
But then his company everybody donated 25% of their
paychecks.
They got some serious paychecksgoing on in that company
Because they got $180 million togive to their families and
that's a powerful story that youI never.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Why did I never hear about?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
that Usually, when you hear money being raised for
charities, that the other day atthat Al Smith thing there was
like 15 million bucks orsomething and all there was
heavy hitters in that.
Yeah but 180 million dollars.
So that tells you, yeah, theywere doing well with that
company.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It's a big time, yeah , big time, but obviously
they're giving back too, whichis yeah, for sure those are the
kind of millionaires andbillionaires that Trump
surrounds himself with.
I think I don't want to bitethe apple too hard.
Do you know what I mean?
I don't necessarily trust anybillionaires, but Right, exactly
(05:16):
, I'm going to clip in some ofthe stuff from my walk away
video.
But I was a never Trumper foreight years and it was bad.
I had Trump derangementsyndrome.
It was horrible.
I was horrible.
I was a horrible human being.
To people.
Move your camera up, becauseit's because your camera is
clipped right on its clip.
(05:37):
Yeah, I do.
Oh wait, turn your camera backon.
Sorry, I can talk.
Yeah, I'll make it.
I unfriended a lot of people onGreat.
I can talk.
Yeah, I'll make it.
I unfriended a lot of people onsocials.
I was going in with all thestupid memes and repeating all
the false rhetoric and Right, Ididn't engage in any of that, I
(06:00):
just.
He just watched me slowlydescend into insanity and never
said a word.
And let me destroy Bridget.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm not one to censor .
I believe that I'm a big FirstAmendment guy.
You know that about me.
I don't ever get on anybody forwhat they think.
I don't try to fight it.
What's the point in that?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
You're never gonna, you just but before barack obama
, I would have said and Iprobably said repeatedly that I
was in the middle, like I wasvery independent and we were
just young, living life, tryingto get the kids through high
school.
So there was eight years ofbarack ob where things were just
there was no noise.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, like he, that was the last time that there was
a because, yeah, you didn'teven really care about the
political process, you didn'tpay that much attention to it,
you only voted.
It didn't even really matter.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I voted for Barack Obama because I literally felt
like I was participating in amovement for change.
And then, after eight years, itfelt like the same in the
United States and I was like,okay, I'm not falling for that
emotional bullshit anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
See, I guess I just always had that perspective, in
the sense of I didn't notice anydifference between, say, the
Clinton presidency and the Bushpresidency.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But I was also not.
When you're in your twenties,it doesn't matter, because
you're just working.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
That's what I'm saying.
None of it.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It doesn't start to matter until you get into a
position where your money hasmore power, as you're able to
buy a house and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Perhaps, but I just don't think that the political
politics mattered that muchprior.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
People weren't talking.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I don't think that, because that's what, and that's
what I'm saying there wasn'tthis huge gap between the left
and the right.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like for the most part, it waslike the pendulum would swing a
little bit, but not, it wasn'tlike it is now.
Where it's the it's like a widegap right and when?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I yeah, because when Bush Jr won, like I wasn't like
devastated, I didn't get.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
No, there's virtually no difference.
So if you look at thepresidencies of, say, like after
Nixon, do you know what I mean?
It's like a slew all the way upthrough Obama of it's not
radical politics at any point.
Right, do you know what I'msaying?
(08:28):
It's a lot of mixed.
Like the presidency would beRepublican, the house would be
Democrat.
Right, there were vice versa.
There was a lot of balancethere was a lot of balance of
power.
And I don't think that reallythere wasn't any like crazy.
Like I said, the pendulum mightswing a little one way or the
other, but for the most part itjust wasn't that big of a people
(08:49):
weren't riled up about itbecause basically, at the end of
the day, everything that wasgoing to get needed to get done
would get done.
Do you know what I mean?
And so people just it wasn'tthat big of a deal right but
then it all hell broke loosewith social media.
And then when?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Hillary ran, all hell broke loose, because then there
was this move towards I'm withher, I'm with her identity
politics.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And somewhat it just.
I think that it just so manyfactors, because I feel like it
was so I told you the othernight.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
So Scott likes to watch um history channel and all
that stuff in the middle of thenight when I'm sleeping and
sometimes when I have a hardtime sleeping I'll wake up and
just watch whatever's on.
And the 70s were on the othernight and I'm so angry I wish I
could go back that feministmovement in the 70s is the cause
(09:54):
of this spiral of no, it's this, it's the movement of it's the
whole, it's identity.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Movement of it's the whole.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
It's identity politics, all of it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, and it's the beginning.
Really, it takes its root inlike good things like I talked
about, like George Carlinforesaw all this.
The great prophet George Carlinsaw this.
I'm going to start referring tohim like that how, like the
nation of Islam is like thehonorable father, father
muhammad or whatever rightbecause it's.
(10:27):
I'm gonna start saying thatbecause I've started a religion
called carlinism and but I'mgonna start saying that the
great and honorable prophetgeorge carlin taught us that he
foresaw this happening and itplayed out like a playbook where
(10:47):
things like it was an obsessionabout children, self esteem,
the self esteem movement that'swhat he calls it.
The self esteem, this idea thatyou have to feel good or that
somehow your life is of no valuewhich is crazy, because in
(11:08):
trying to promote self-esteem inthis last 25 years, I would say
not 50 we've increaseddepression 50 years
Speaker 1 (11:18):
it's unattainable.
We're participating,participation trophy culture.
When you win and you get atrophy and you feel those levels
of serotonin for the happy,that or the dopamine or whatever
you're getting from winning.
You don't get that with aparticipation trophy it's met.
(11:42):
The kids that are getting theparticipation trophies
understand that it is such atsix right, you're not getting
the level of rush, theexcitement from it and so we've
created depression because bywinning everything, you're
increasing the gap to what ittakes to get happy.
(12:04):
Fuck out of here.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I hate people, I do, but yeah, but no, but that's
what it's all born out of theself-esteem movement and that's
where, like this feeling that,like I said that, and it really
boils down to and he breaks itdown.
He was like, if we can agreethat not every adult is special,
which everybody can agree onnot every adult is special but
(12:28):
yet we check, tell every childthat they're special.
So at what point do they go frombeing special to not so special
?
Yeah, and that's a transitionthat we chose to make everybody
feel special, regardless ofwhatever.
When this?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
and like I said, and when you're transitioning into
an adult the self is a big oldnobody in the adult world.
The need to feel special.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You start moving the goalposts on what special it is
and, like I said, with the wholeself-esteem thing, that's what
this really born out of, in thesense of that you deserve to
feel good all the time, as your,your level of happiness is your
value in the world, which isjust not the way that it is.
No, you're not going to behappy all the time.
(13:19):
You're not going to be feelinggood all the time.
The the world is a harsh, cruelplace.
Why there's drugs and alcohol.
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Which we're going to be doing in an upcoming episode,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And the great and powerful prophet George Carlin
tells us in Complaints andGrievances, chapter 1, verse 12.
No, I just wanted to say that.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Sorry, big Ed, I'm working right now.
Big Ed, big Ed, if someone elseis live, I'll come over later.
Boys, big Ed, I need to beworried.
Big Ed, no, no, he's part ofthe AFS family, so let's talk
(14:11):
about that, because we are goingto get into it a little bit
Internet groups.
We're live on social media sosome of my family might be in
here.
I don't have my glasses on.
I cannot see the comments.
It could be a total shit showin the comments right now.
I have zero clue.
I don't need I'm not saying Idon't need mods, but we're just
recording our podcast right now.
So if someone shuts us down,we'll go into our camera and
(14:33):
record from our phone and y'alljust won't get to see it.
So if you don't behave, that'son you.
In the meantime let's talkabout.
so I don't want to get too farin the weeds on how we got here,
because that's part of otherpodcasts for sure but
essentially, like march of thisyear, we started putting into
(14:55):
motion a game plan for scott tobecome a stand-up comic, alana b
to become a content creator andthen the both of us to have a
podcast.
So here we are.
However, after so, we came backfrom Nashville in what end of
April?
And that's when we had enoughcontent to start putting things
(15:19):
out in social media.
And so we and so I was Ifinally gave in after years of
saying I'm never going on TikTok, it's a propaganda machine, I
don't want to be there.
And I got on TikTok and one ofour first lives.
Everybody's who you're votingfor, who you're voting for.
It wasn't even a political live.
(15:40):
It was just like me being liveand was like I'm Switzerland.
I'm Switzerland.
I'm Switzerland because Ididn't want to jeopardize the
future of our brand by makingany public statements on who we
were voting for.
I don't, I'm not here toinfluence anybody else's vote.
It's none of my business whoyou vote for and I don't feel
(16:02):
the need to be liked byeverybody.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I think gilded trash probably speaks more to the
right than it does the left, andI'm not picking and choosing
yeah, nowadays yeah yeahnowadays, just because it's, I
think personally to me assomebody that's probably, if you
look at my politics, likereally break it down.
(16:26):
I'm actually and I'm not goingto share them here because it's
pretty extreme, but I'm probablyextreme left, leftist politics,
like actually I believe in nopolitics.
I'm truly an anarchist in thegreatest sense of the word.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
All that making fun of me you did on previous
episodes of the podcast.
You're the anarchist, oh no.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, no, yeah, no.
For real, though, and I couldquote there's one.
One of my favorite things islike anarchism, whatever, but
anarchism is the freedom fromgovernment, the freedom from
religion, the freedom fromcapitalism.
Anarchism is the freedom fromgovernment, the freedom from
religion, the freedom fromcapitalism, and based on the
free grouping of individuals andideas to create a better
(17:10):
society without any of thosethings, which is extreme leftist
ideology.
However, in a practical sense,I also realize that's totally
unobtainable.
That's not the world that welive in.
That's a fantasy.
But what I believe in isfreedom, ultimate freedom for
(17:38):
everybody.
But now the left has totallybeen hijacked by people that
want less freedom, they wantcensorship, they want censorship
, they want control, they wantall this we'll call it like
virtue signaling type stuff, andthat's just not what I
represent at all.
So I'm so against that.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
That's why I'm voting for Donald Trump that's exactly
and I think that's how I gothere.
Like, my ideology as far asliving, mine has always been
live and let live.
I don't care about your sexualorientation, I don't care about
your educational background, Idon't care about what money you
have or don't have.
(18:23):
If you are are a real humanbeing, then I'm going to gel
with you, no matter what yourpolitical beliefs are.
If I believe that you'rebrainwashed or that you've been
duped by propaganda, we'reprobably not going to be friends
anyway, because I like tosurround myself with intelligent
people.
That's neither here nor there.
(18:45):
That's not a left or right thing.
There are people that arebrainwashed to believe a certain
thing on the right.
There are people brainwashed tobelieve a certain thing on the
left.
It has nothing to do withpolitics.
Per se, People are easily.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I've often and again, to quote the great and powerful
prophet George Carlin, thatlike this whole thing, this shit
that we shuffle around everyfour years, and powerful prophet
George Carlin, that like thiswhole thing, this shit that we
shuffle around every four years,is meaningless.
This country was bought andpaid and sold, bought and paid
and sold a long time ago, boughtand sold and paid for a long
(19:20):
time ago.
And it's a big club and we'renot in it and this Hold on a
second.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Sorry, continue this.
You can continue that, diannaChen.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
But yeah, so I view it as like it's two sides of the
same coin a lot of times andI'm Mexican you care to share
what you are.
You're not Mexican.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I'm 52% Irish, 24% Polish 2% Balkan Greek, 0.5%
Asian, 0.5% Mongolian.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
But the bottom point is, there's nowhere in there Is
there any sort of Hispanicheritage.
And the other side of that too,though.
The funny part is, though wetalked about this before you get
mistaken.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Always, people think I'm Latina all the time.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
So much so a truck stops when we're around people
that don't speak English andthey see her and they're in a
situation where they're tryingto communicate to somebody.
They often lean to you Becausethey're like here, looks like a
lady who speaks.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Spanish and I know, sorry it's not me.
I wish I did and I feel stupidfor not pursuing another
language.
I took german in high school,but yeah, like I'm, just
something I gotta do I'd like tolearn german.
German's easy to learn myancestral language my child is
learning german and and Spanishand French all at once.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
In the communist revolutionary bookstores in the
1960s you could get copies ofanything you wanted to read in
multiple languages.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
And you only know this why.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Eric Weinstein.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The great and powerful.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
The second great prophet yeah, no, I.
Eric weinstein is one of myfavorite people to listen to
very smart.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
He's a very smart guy and don't be embarrassed about
that.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
He's very no, I'm not embarrassed, but back to social
media back to social media andpolitics so how did we get here?
Yeah so how do we get off onthat?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
again in.
We were saying that we wereSwitzerland politically and then
, I don't know, it was like itwas a crazy series of events
because there were things that Iwas was putting on the book of
faith that we're not getting anytraction.
And then, I think right afterthat, the article came out about
(22:08):
zuckerberg admitting that theywere suppressing some right
ideologies which I wouldn't haveconsidered myself right even
then.
And then, whenever the attempton Trump happened, I was upset
because I didn't, because Ididn't think it was a lone
individual.
(22:28):
I believe that it's coming fromsome powers that be politically
and it's that's just my opinion.
Obviously, this is just forentertainment.
However, when I saw people thatI actually thought that I
respected and that I thoughtthat I liked and that I thought
that I cared about, saying thatthey were sad that the person
(22:53):
missed problem on our hands thanwho was going to be the
president, and it is thebreakdown, it's so serious, the
breakdown of american societyand the brainwashing that's
happening through the propagandaof the mainstream media.
And I had been deprogrammedfrom mainstream media for the
last four years because oncebiden won, I turned off the news
(23:16):
.
I was like I'm done with it.
I had been drained.
I was sick, and tired anddrained of all the emotion that
was going on.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
To me, I just think this is just a continuation of
basically a big game thatthey've been playing for about
60, 70 years, and this is justlike getting to the they're
finally seeing results.
It's like the final, they'refinally seeing results of things
that they put in the work forlong, long ago In terms of
brainwashing and stuff like that.
(23:46):
The seeds were planted long ago.
And no, I firmly believe that.
You know that I don't trustanybody.
I don't trust the government, Idon't trust business.
I don't trust anybody.
Yeah, I don't trust anybody.
I don't trust any of it, noneof it.
All those people, the medianone of them.
You shouldn't believe any ofthose people.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
But so, after being so like, radically left for
eight years, it felt, it felt.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I don't think you were radically left, I think you
were radical.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
but your ideals weren't radical left ideals.
You're right, because I'm I'vealways you were just I don't
know how to say.
You weren't radically left inyour opinion, you were radical
sure in the sense, in yourfervor in my fervor, in my trump
derangement syndrome, which wasjust against him right to do
(24:45):
with politics correct, correctdating back to 1993.
You could ask me my stance onabortion and I've always been
pro-life for myself butpro-choice for anybody else who
needed it.
Once it became birth control, Iwas done.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I was done but the thing is again, and that all
comes out of this, again,abortion.
All that stuff comes out of theself-esteem movement which
comes this phrase, sanctity oflife right, which the great and
powerful prophet george carlintalks about often not a
political episode.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
This is a george carlin.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
And no, because it applies so well that this term
sanctity of life is what itbasically.
We get to pick and choose whichforms of life we think are
sacred and we get to kill therest.
And we made the whole fuckingthing up, and it's made up, and
here we are, and so even thataside, and so even that aside.
(25:40):
But the point being, with allthat talk of left, whatever,
like most people, for most ofour lives we lean left on some
issues, right on others,socially probably more liberal,
fiscally more conservative, morelike those policy In the 90s
(26:00):
would have been calledcompassionate conservatism.
Yeah, and even like theDemocratic Party of, say, the
1960s or 50s, that was more.
The bar is so far been movedthat if you were in the center
before which is where I wouldsay that we were politically if
you just line up our idealsbecause there was enough
(26:21):
offsetting, you would say wewere in the center before, which
is where I would say that wewere politically.
If you just line up our idealsbecause there was enough
offsetting, you would say wewere in the center.
Nothing real crazy on eitherend.
Nothing real crazy on eitherend.
You didn't even see what I did.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Rage bait.
I said I was looking in thecomments.
Somebody's wanting to know ifit's.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I said nothing real crazy, just it.
I said nothing real crazy, justit.
But no, we didn't have any real.
Like I said, there was not realany outliers.
It was very centerish that sofar that even people that were
(27:00):
Democrats who sometimes votedconservatively, that whole
branch of the Democratic Partyis gone, the center's in the
middle, like if the center islike way out there somewhere now
.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
So even if you were left before, the bar has been so
far moved that you now fallunder this umbrella just because
their politics have gotten sofar left, like in terms of just
fringe yeah, fringe for sure andand I've seen a lot of good um
social media posts about thatrecently and a lot of people in
(27:37):
that realm are being referred toas libertarians, but it's not
the true libertarian sense ofthe word.
It's just like the new word forthe people who live in that
space that you just described.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Bill Maher said it best, actually, and he is very
critical of the left.
We talk about this all the time.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
He's critical enough of the left.
But my problem with Bill Maheris that he puts jokes too far,
to where they're not funny.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
We're not here to debate Bill Maher.
All I'm saying is he's knownfor being left, but he is
critical of the left.
That's what I'm getting at isin terms of popular left people.
He is one of the few thatcriticizes the far left right
which the I'm saying.
Nobody on the left does muchcriticism, so he is one of the
(28:28):
few.
Regardless of any of that, hesaid don't become so tolerant
that you tolerate intolerance,and that's what the left has
really done right like with thepalestinian things on campus.
Do you know what I mean?
Like they become so tolerantthat they now tolerate other
(28:51):
people being intolerant againstthings that should they right,
you should be intolerant against.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, exactly, you should be intolerant against,
yeah exactly, and it's just acrazy flip-flop and that's how
we ended up over here, slightlycenter of left.
But so there was and I'vetalked about this before in
(29:18):
previous videos and stuff likethat, and it's not blowing smoke
there was couple of contentcreators that made me feel
comfortable to come out of thepolitical closet per se, as
actually once I decided that Iwas voting for Trump.
I saw the Theo Vaughn interviewwith Trump interview with Trump
(29:44):
and actually and I've said thisbefore, if you've heard a
couple of my videos, you willhave heard me say this I felt
like I was in the upside downwhen I watched that video
because I didn't realize howmuch humanity Trump really had,
and I was very he seemed veryhumble in the interview.
I said it before, I was veryproud of Theo Vaughn for not
being like a goon, like hesometimes tends to be.
He was just enough to make itfun and entertaining.
(30:04):
He asked 30 questions.
He asked some edgy questions,which I thought was cool too,
but what really flipped me wasseeing creators like John Paul
King, who is black and whobasically I don't want to say it
(30:28):
the thing is okay to be annoyedby somebody just because
they're human, and if they'reblack it's okay to say it out
loud.
It's not okay to hold yourfeelings just because of
somebody's race.
If I'm pissed off at somebodyat work, their race doesn't hold
me back from saying that theydid something wrong at work.
So why, in social context,would you hold back on saying
something?
Because just because ofsomeone's color and that's where
(30:50):
the whole censorship comes inlike I can't get mad at somebody
on social media because raceautomatically becomes the issue
even when it's not, and that'sutter bullshit what I was gonna
say is the reason that you feltuncomfortable about saying all
that stuff is because the leftis much more critical if you
(31:13):
don't go along with everythingthat they say you're cut off
immediately you can't disagreeon one thing out of the whole
package.
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
It's all or nothing.
It's a zero-sum game.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Exactly.
I've been called every name inthe book I have, but I deserve
it.
Because I did that to otherpeople whenever I was radically
left, I can take it.
I'm not being called namesdoesn't bother me, because I'm
very confident in who I am Like.
I know I might go a little hamsometimes, but just because
(31:47):
people need to be put in theirplace, it's not because they
hurt my feelings.
And you're exactly right,though.
Once I came out as mega, I wasshut off from certain people.
This one bitch had the nerve tosay to me be careful what I say,
because she was on the fencewith me.
If you're on the fence with me,you were never my person to
(32:10):
begin with.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
But this brings it to a greater point of.
I've never cared what myfriend's political beliefs are.
Do you know what I mean?
I don't care what my friend'spolitical beliefs are.
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I don't care what my friends' political beliefs are,
but I use it as a gauge to seehow intelligent they are.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Yeah, but I'm saying like, for example, if I disagree
with somebody's, if you're myfriend, you're my friend, even
if you told you could tell meyou're voting for Harris.
I don't care, right.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
That doesn't You're mad at somebody for voting for
Harris.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, I don't care and I'm still going to be your
friend because chances are guesswhat?
I don't talk about politics, soit's not even going to come up.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Exactly.
So, if you don't tell me whoyou're voting for, I'm not
asking.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah, because I don't care.
I don't care and but to yourwhat I care about is how do I
want to say it?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Correcting misinformation, and I'm very
passionate about correctingmisinformation, and so I do get
a little mouthy about that.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
But to your point, though I'm trying to tie this
all together here.
Is that?
So you're talking about peoplesaying but that doesn't happen.
It only happens on one sidethat people would be so mad that
you say to your friend, becauseyou're voting a certain way,
I'm not going to be your friend.
(33:30):
You know what I mean.
That doesn't normally.
That's not normal.
You know what I mean.
That shouldn't be anybody'sdisposition.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Matter of fact, the couple of friends, but you only
see it on one side.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You don't see it.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
A couple of friends that I did have that were Trump
supporters when Biden won.
After the election theyrefriended me and we talked
again.
They just didn't want to hearme on and on about the election.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
And that's fair.
Like you don't want me poppingup in your feed, I'm cool with
that.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I'm not saying that every person on the left is like
that.
I'm just saying that all ofthat kind of behavior comes from
one.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
No, this was people on the right that unfriended me
during the Biden electionbecause there was no hard
feelings.
It was political discourse.
We didn't agree politically,which was cool, it was fine, but
afterwards we were adult enoughto come back around.
There are a few people whonever came back around and, as
(34:36):
far as that goes, like thepeople that were mega, that I
cut off years ago, that I stillhaven't talked to.
I watched them be shitty humanbeings shittier than I've ever
been and I've watched them bemean, so like I should have
never been friends with them tobegin with.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
That's just I mean for sure People do that on both
sides on both sides.
Not anymore, though from theright.
No sides.
Not anymore though from theright.
No, because they got themessage and that's what I was
saying.
Now you only see that come fromthe left side.
Yeah, and not all left peopledo it, but I'm just saying the
(35:13):
most like vitriolic, hatefulstuff comes from that side.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
The most misinformation, the most ad
hominem attacks.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I'd say there's probably equal misinformation.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah, I would agree with that.
There's misinformation on bothsides.
But if you are so unintelligentthat the only thing you can do
is spew ad hominem attacks, andif you don't even know what that
means, then you're not.
Don't talk to me Like.
I want to debate like.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
I know, but that a lot of people may not know what
that means.
Just tell people what it means.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
It's personal character attacks, but you
should be smart enough to beable to Google it If you don't
know what I'm talking about noteverybody that we're speaking to
is some of our listeners areage hindered ad hominem wasn't
invented with the internet I getthat, but I'm just saying just
(36:11):
share with them however.
What I'm really getting outthere, though, is that a lot of
people they don't have anythingelse, they just want to like
just somebody said rage baitearlier.
They just want to rage bait andbe weird and say clownish
things that, like, don't evenmatter in the con, like, at the
(36:32):
end of the day, you can calltrump every name in the book a
it doesn't hurt him and b itdoesn't impact the policies that
are going to be impacting ourlives.
It doesn't even make sense, andthe emotion behind it is
(36:52):
getting a little exhausting too.
I can't wait for this thing tobe over yeah, I'll be happy.
I don't, I'm not not the emotionfor me, the emotion of watching
people be mean no, I get it.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I'm just saying the whole process of it is
exhausting for the country andthe people in it.
You know what I mean.
It's not fun.
I'd be very happy if we couldfigure out an alternative, but,
as the great and powerfulprophet George Carlin has told
(37:26):
us, that shall not be.
We're fucked.
Yeah, that's.
The bottom line is that humansare horrible.
There's no real way to managethem, there's no way to really
manage any of it, and that it'sjust all constantly falling
(37:48):
apart, even if you get it towork for a little bit.
That's the sad reality doom andgloom person that's what the
great and powerful prophetgeorge carlin taught us.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
So now, all right, I need to talk about my aff family
for a minute because that soafter I.
So I think I started followingJohn Paul first and then, I
think, probably Mama Taut andOfficer UD I went after because
I had already known who theywere on Facebook.
Not even gonna bring up MamaTaut right now, don't get me
wrapped up in any of her dramamy husband's you can't see Scott
(38:23):
, but he's going dark over here.
He's got his head up over hisface.
He's hiding.
He doesn't want to talk aboutthat.
And then I saw I saw a stitchor a duet with Austin and Ninja
and that was it for me.
As soon as I found Austin, Ifelt like I finally found my
people on TikTok.
And after that you're a weirdo.
(38:46):
After that it was like it wason because, bringing it full
circle, we're talking aboutpeople on the left being mean.
When I first got to TikTok, Idid the follow trains.
I was putting out three, fourvideos a day.
I understood the homeworkassignment, right, kids.
(39:07):
So that's a TikTok thing.
You're looking at me like I'mcrazy, but I wasn't getting the
engagement.
I did lives.
I went into people's lives.
I probably spent $200 droppinggifts and everybody's and not
like nothing, found Austin, andI think the AFF was just blowing
(39:29):
up whenever this happened,cause I came on right as Austin
fucking Foreman was trending andI started following those
people and the AFF hashtagbecame a thing.
And now do you ever not go tochurch for a long time and then
you go back and everybody's justoh hey, we love you, we miss
(39:50):
you, we haven't seen you.
That's what it feels like for me.
It feels very emotional, like Icame back to church after a
long time yeah, I see whatyou're saying for sure.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
No, I'm just thinking because I don't know, I don't
get that same feeling going backto church.
But I understand what you meanby that feeling.
Right, you know what I mean.
Like, for me it's somethingdifferent.
Like I have an uncomfortablefeeling with that.
But I understand that people.
I can relate to that becausethere was a time in my life
(40:27):
where that would feel viable.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Because it's like a family welcoming you.
It's like we talk about goinghome.
That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
It doesn't have to be church Going home.
But you haven't been home for along time and then all of a
sudden you come back andeverybody, it's like you didn't
miss a beat, like you were nevergone, except for these.
People never knew me before,when I was on the left.
They are just meeting me now,right, but it's, it doesn't
matter.
All none of that matters,because we all vibe and click
(40:58):
and get along and support eachother and there's like little
movements popping up everywhereof this charitable thing and
this cause I.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
I have a chart here.
It's my favorite chart.
It shows your participate.
I'm teasing, I just wanted tothrow that in there, but yeah,
no, that's.
The thing is that one side isdefinitely more the side that
says they're more welcoming.
Isn't that welcoming?
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Not welcoming at all.
They're only welcoming if youadopt.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Into that's the whole idea is that you're only
welcome if you accept theseexact parameters of the
relationship.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Welcome in the light.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
All are welcome in the light until you're not, but
that's just it, though is again,it's like the whole, like
they're claiming one thing, butin reality they just practice
something different yeah so what?
Yeah, I got a million thingswhat else do you want to talk
about?
What was your?
Who did you?
Who was your first person thatyou ever voted for?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
the first person I ever voted for, if you don't
include the mock election in1992, where I voted for Bill
Clinton because I was onlyBarack Obama.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
No, it's funny.
I remember voting in my mockelection when it was I guess it
was the same one Clinton, but Iwas only in whatever grade.
But because I remember thepeople that were playing like
the people.
You know how you had studentsand part of it was is if the
student was just really goodthey could make one of the
(42:34):
crappier.
For example, I think ross perotwon in our school because the
kid that was playing ross perotin the little fake debate was
just so much better than theother kids that he won in the
school.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Because they were like voting off, because they're
kids I loved ross I love fakeelections in schools oh yeah, so
the first person I ever votedfor was brock obama oh, for real
.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Yeah, like in a real election.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Yeah, I wanted john kerry to win, but I didn't, and
I cried like a little baby whenhe lost.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
I think I voted for Al Gore my first time Al Gore.
Yeah 2000 election.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
I don't really like again.
I wasn't into politics, I was asingle mom with a lot of shit
going on and I didn't care aboutany of that.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I think that we could vote.
I don't remember.
I don't remember Al Gore, alGore, because I would have been
yeah, yeah, I voted for Barack,hillary, joe and now Joe.
(43:52):
I voted for Gore, who ranagainst George Bush in 2004?
Kerry.
So Gore, kerry, obama twice,regardless.
Anyway, let's, we can wrap itup here.
Obama twice, regardless.
(44:13):
Anyway, let's, we can wrap itup here.
But no, I had a couple morethings.
What was the first memory thatyou had of an election going on?
You remember any from your kid?
Because the reason I'm sayingthat is because I remember when
I was a kid.
I just remember all the MichaelDukakis commercials.
Yeah, I do remember MichaelDukakis, and I just remember.
I don't know why, but thatsticks out in my mind.
Yeah, and Dan Quayle.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
For some reason I remember they were like making
fun of Dan Quayle.
He couldn't spell yeahsomething.
Potatoes, tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
No, that was W with the potatoes, I think was it or
was it dan quayle?
Speaker 2 (44:51):
I thought it was dan quayle.
I don't remember the great ohdebate.
They called it the great tatodebate the great potato famine
see, you did, your so my, ofcourse.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
My grandma always talked about like elections back
in the day yeah, my parentsweren't political, so I didn't
neither was she, but she justremembered stuff like that
because it was history right itwasn't the politics of it, it
was just the history of it butyeah, the only thing that I'm
gonna need you to come in andrecord is the come into the
(45:29):
studio and record.
We don't have a studio comingnot tonight, but you're gonna
have to get your quote.
You're gonna have to get a goodgood politic, politic, politic
and to quote the great austinforeman Ballots for the ballots.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
So here's a little segment I'd like to call Scott's
Thoughts.
Scott's Thoughts and mythoughts are so.
You may have seen this thingwith Joe Biden, where he said
that he was referencing thewhole Tony Hinchcliffe thing,
where Apollo garbage or whatever, and he said that the only
garbage floating around wereTrump supporters.
(46:11):
And I just like to say the onlygarbage floating around is the
steaming pile of bullshitpoliticians in Washington, a
town filled with half-witbureaucrats and horrible people.
That's the only garbage outhere.
There's a lot of garbage, butwhere does it come from?
(46:31):
It comes from all of us.
That's what the system produces.
To quote the great GeorgeCarlin Garbage in, garbage out.
This is what we got folks.
This is the best we can do.
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