June 11, 2025 • 39 mins
Let's dig into the sh*tstorm of what's happening in LA right now. Below are some resources and orgs you can donate to to help <3 AND REMEMBER NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND!
https://www.immdef.org/
https://oia.lacounty.gov/kyr/
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(00:00):
Hello.
So in this episode, you mightnotice that the microphone is a
little weird.
Matt decided to lose his braincells yesterday when we were
filming.
This episode and didn't pressthe record button through the
microphones, so it sounds alittle bit funky.
So please, if you just bear withus, we say some pretty serious
things, but also quite funnythings and I just feel like
you'll really enjoy thisepisode.
Please enjoy.
(00:20):
And sorry.
Good afternoon, good evening.
Good morning.
I would say good morning, but itcertainly is not one, but it
could, it's not a good morning,but it could just be a normal
morning.
I was quoing.
What's her face?
What Nancy There?
Huh Nancy Pelosi, when she goton the stage that one time to do
some press conference thing andshe went, I would say good
morning, but it most certainlyis not one tick tack toe.
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A winner.
Exactly.
She said the darnedest thing.
Guys, we're talking politicstoday.
We don't do that.
This, that what?
Yeah, we do.
We don't do it that often.
No, we don't.
If we go back through, we chatshit so much.
We don't talk about politicsthat often on this podcast, but
we want to.
What the thing is, is that likewhen we are with our friends,
sure.
We have the conversations thatwe're having on this podcast
generally anyway.
(01:04):
Mm-hmm.
Like this is the kind of shitthat we talk about with our
friends all the time.
We're talking about like ourlike, like stories and we're
trying shit and we're like beingweird.
But other times we're havingreally deep conversations about
like shit's going on in theworld and right now the shit
that's going on in the fuckingworld, you guys, it's a lot.
I mean, at, at a dinner table, Ihave a pimple.
(01:25):
Oh, come on.
Inside.
Like my moth tattoo has like alittle bit of the thing missing
and there's, I can see it,there's pimple right in the
middle of the, the bit of thetattoo that there is not.
Tattooing it, and it's right inthe center of the moth and
there's a, a pimple right in themiddle of that.
I don't wanna talk.
Stop popping your pimples.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Ow.
Stop it.
Stop popping your pimples.
Leave them.
You're in a scar and there'sgonna be a little scar inside of
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the moth.
Anyways, at the dinner table, wetalk about everything.
We goof around, we talk aboutsilly shit, but we can also talk
about politics because that'swhat a gym table's for.
You just chat about everythingthat's happening, and right now
the things that are happening inCalifornia and LA specifically
are crazy, fucking atrocious.
My mom, my mom actually text me.
Well, she WhatsApp me and shewas like, are you, are you okay?
Mm-hmm.
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I turned on the news.
My mom hates the news'cause shejust hates to be sad.
Well, she also thinks SanFrancisco is right beside of la
No, but she's like, you know,they, they're, they're, they're
saying it's California specific.
Yeah.
The whole thing.
So, yeah.
So it's the whole state is onfire.
It's not, yeah.
Yeah.
But I mean, yeah.
It's a crazy time.
It's been a crazy time since thebeginning of this year.
Mm-hmm.
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Because we have a, a fat pieceof shit, Cheeto.
In the White House.
Don't I?
I think we need to stopinsulting Cheetos like that
because I thought you were gonnasay stop insulting people like
that.
No, the Cheetos.
I need to stop insulting theCheetos.
That was crazy.
The Cheetos are, Cheetos aregreat.
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Donald Trump is not crazy work.
You guys.
Let's, let's dig into what ishappening currently.
Not that we're like newsbroadcasters or anything, we
just have like some thoughts,especially as me an immigrant.
Being an immigrant is a crucialpart of our story together.
Being immigrants has been.
Exactly, yeah.
Because we've both beenimmigrants to multiple
countries, and my parents areimmigrants who live in a
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different country.
Everyone is an immigrant.
Everyone's an immigrant.
everyone is a fucking immigrant.
No one is illegal on stolenland.
Tea named the episode.
Period.
Yeah.
So you guys, I don't know, it'scrazy.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I feel like this happens and ithas been happening for so long.
Like you, you, you turn onsocial media and there's all of
a sudden, every like six monthsor so, there's huge crazy
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fucking shit storm that happens.
And it takes a world by stormmore often than that.
It's crazy.
And it feels like that you, weare currently living through
another historic.
World event.
Mm-hmm.
And we keep living through likethese crazy historic world
events.
I think it's important,especially with people that have
a platform, and I know we don'tthink generally, we've done
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enough in the past to discussall, even just not even.
Bring to light.
'cause the light is shiningfucking brightly.
You're not opening your eyes,you're an idiot.
sometimes it's like, what can,what can you say?
Like, when you, I don't know,like sometimes it feels point,
not, not pointless, but like asan influencer, as someone with a
platform, as people withplatforms, it feels like there
are so many people speaking outonline.
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It's like, what does my voice, Ithink one of the most, most
important things for people tolike see though with their
favorite creators and their,their favorite influences.
And celebrities is, do yousupport the causes that I
support?
Mm-hmm.
Because if so, then I know thatI can align myself with you as a
person.
We do this with brands all thetime.
Mm-hmm.
Like it's pride month and we'relike, okay, we're not gonna work
with this branch because theydonated money to, uh, the
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Republican campaign or whateverthe fuck.
Mm-hmm.
So we are like, maybe we're likethat to some people.
Mm-hmm.
And people wanna know, do yousupport Palestine?
Yes.
Do you support immigrants?
Yes.
Do you support trans people?
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Do you support.
Any marginalized fuckingcommunity like a billion times?
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
And it's just important forpeople to know that.
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But I think specifically withlike what's happening in la, it
hits very close to home for us.
Since you are a green cardholder.
And it's people telling to stopsaying that online though, like
I said it, I said it and someonein the comment section was like,
don't don't say specificallywhat your like actual
immigration status is.
Yeah.
It's a little dangerous at themoment.
Yeah.
But I think it's not just, noteven just green card card
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holders and undocumented peopleand people with, um, certain
statuses in the us It's alsocitizens that are being caught
up in this.
Like you see crazy citizensbeing detained.
You see people at these protestswho are citizens and might have
the right paperwork.
I start taking them in andsaying their paperwork is fake,
even if they're US citizens.
Crazy.
Like it's not just, it's not,it's not just undocumented
peoples.
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It's everyone.
Yeah.
And that's the scary part.
No, this is the, this is theproblem.
So this is my issue.
Sorry, this, sorry guys.
This is gonna be a bit heavy.
This is my issue.
This is my issue.
Mm-hmm.
Fucking annoyed.
I'm fucking annoyed.
Let me lighten up a bit.
Let me talk about some serioustopics whilst also being like
myself and like not, I'm gettingangry, but at the same time I'm
like.
I don't wanna be like yellingthrough this entire episode.
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I'm just annoyed that yell.
We like live here and like wechose to live here and I'm so
fucking glad that we did becausemm-hmm.
The life that we've been able tolive is the life that I've
always dreamed of.
Mm-hmm.
But also the lives that all ofthe people who came here legally
or illegally or not, nobody isfucking illegal.
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Mm-hmm.
cause you know what?
It's not fucking crime.
To be undocumented.
It's not a crime.
It's not, it's not a crime.
It's not a crime.
It's not a crime.
You're just here without papers.
It, it's not a crime.
You're living at a federallevel.
You fucking idiots.
And you have a family and youwork and you pay taxes.
And this is the thing.
It's like you pay.
Yeah, exactly.
And here's my, here's my issuewith it.
Like there are these people thatare now in power and they hold
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all of the power.
And there are people who had no.
Foresight or, uh, what's theword I'm looking for?
Just like, what do theChristians, wherewithal.
Wherewithal.
Oh, wherewithal.
Wherewithal.
Wherewithal.
I'm gonna find every, and thatone reason in every episode is
to bring back my favorite word,wherewithal.
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The wherewithal.
Mm.
Did you think I used it rightthen?
I, we can say it mean it meanseverything.
You know what I mean though?
Means whatever you want.
Right.
The wherewithal to considerother fucking people.
Mm-hmm.
Crazy work.
Yeah.
So.
I just think I, there was, so,there were so many people who
were like so loud and proudabout their vote for Trump when
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he won the election and they'relike, he's not gonna do all
these things that he says he isgonna do.
And then tho those people havebeen like drastically impacted
by like, say, tariffs or likemm-hmm.
Other things that are happening.
But tho those are also the kindsof people who just like, don't
give a shit unless it'shappening to them.
Mm-hmm.
And so, unless like.
They need an abortion.
Mm.
And they wouldn't get one.
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They're pro-life, so theywouldn't get one.
But unless they needed one, allof a sudden now it's their
problem.
Mm.
And they're like, oh my God, Ididn't think about that.
But now it is something that, anissue that I'm facing, but I
don't get how you can have thatmindset.
I really don't understand that.
There was someone in ourcomments today on your video.
She was like, she voted aRepublican for most of her life.
And'cause she was only thinkingabout herself.
Yeah.
And then she started votingliberal, she voted, voted more
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democratic.
Okay.
And she, because she's thinkingabout other people now.
Yeah.
And I, I thought you were gonnasay, someone says something.
No, no, no, no.
I was gonna beat them up.
I've, I personally, my mindsethas always been I'm, I'm voting
and I'm doing things and I'mthinking about other people.
I'm also thinking about myselffor sure.
But there, like, why would I, I,I don't underst send people who
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voted for Trump and voted forpeople.
To be like normal, normalfamilies and normal like dads
and moms and kids who were beingdetained and deported just for
not having the right documents.
Yeah.
I, I can't believe that ICEexists as a thing.
Is it explained to me?
I don't know when ICE wascreated.
I don't need to know when.
Please explain to me.
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It's not like a, what, it's justlike a separate organization,
right?
Yep.
It's a separate federal agency.
I am mad.
So I'm mad.
So basically, you guys, if youdidn't know I'm mad.
Um, what the fuck is ICE?
And why are they so annoying?
I don't know who, whichpresident made ice.
I actually don't know history,but ice.
It'd be actually fun to, fun toknow.
fun.
Should I look that up?
Do you know what I Yeah, youlook it up.
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Whilst I tell you my first, myfirst experience, I'm, I'm new
to the country.
I moved here two years ago.
What the fuck is ice?
I was watching Orange is a NewBlack.
When it was like, you know,having, its.
Huge moment.
And there was one season atOrange's New Black that was kind
of dedicated to like immigrantsand undocumented people.
Mm-hmm.
And they, they were, they wereshowing all these ice raids and
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like people were in, even in theprisons, got like separated and
they were being deported.
And it was crazy to watch.
Mm-hmm.
Because I had no idea that thisexisted at that level.
But that was my first like.
Visualization of like ICE as anorganization.
It's horrible of mass terror.
Well, I also, every time I seean ice agent or an ice raid and
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they're all ugly, they're allugly.
They're all ugly, right?
Every time I see them like doingthese horrible things, like
dragging, like tearing familiesapart and dragging people away
into vans, I'm children.
Who are these people and what,like what, how, how do they, are
they just doing their jobs?
I don't know.
Are they just normal peopledoing their jobs?
I don't know.
Do they believe in this?
Are they just like, they justneed some, like, like do they
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just go home to their familiesand you're like, oh my God, how,
Hey honey, how your, how wasyour day?
Day work?
Yeah.
Oh my God, they're so good.
I ripped a 4-year-old away fromits mother.
What the fuck?
You freak how there are so manywords.
There are so many curse words.
Like just, you can let them outin this podcast in my fucking
mouth.
You can let them out.
And I'm just like, I just don'tknow how to say them all without
offending so many people.
Here's a little history lessonso we can all be on the same
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page.
I'm mad, I'm mad.
Ice was established as part of amajor reorganization of the
federal government in responseto the September 11th, 2001
terrorist attacks, the attacksexposed weaknesses in US border
security and immigrationenforcement prompting a
restructuring to bettercoordinate national security
efforts.
'cause it was Okay.
So it was because of nine 11concerns, security concerns.
Right, right.
And that's when the Departmentof Homeland Security was formed
(10:56):
as well and ICE was part ofthat.
they're sending people to Libya,they're sending people to El
Salvador, they're sending peopleto Guantanamo.
And there are people like,they're, we don't even know
where these people go.
They just like fall off the faceof the earth.
Like Hilmar Brady Garcia.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know about him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So he just got back, but nowthey're charging him.
Oh, were you fucking joking.
So they, we got him back.
He got, he came back.
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But now they're charging himwith these false claims of human
trafficking, and they have himin detention again in the US
because they're trying to gethim on something.
crazy to make themselves like,look, yeah, don't look, but
they're making up shit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like crazy work.
We're fully living in the end ofthis regime, or like the
beginning of a new regime, adic, a dictatorial regime.
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And it's crazy that we're seeingthis happen in real time.
it's just probably for usspecifically be having these
conversations because like, I'vebeen an immigrant in Germany,
I've been an immigrant inCanada.
I'm white obviously, so I, it'sa different experience,
Immigration is, is a key part ofour lives.
Do you know what I find socrazy?
Like I, every since, since thebeginning of this year, or even
like, actually towards the endof last year, every single time
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I come back into the countrynow, I'm like terrified because
I'm always, I don't know if youknow this about me, you guys,
every single time I, well, itused to happen a lot more often
than it does now.
Every time I come into thecountry mm-hmm.
You go through immigrationmm-hmm.
And passport control yeah.
I have my green card and I havemy passport and I show it to
them and it has all myinformation on it, and they just
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like scan it.
And sometimes they get to gothrough, sometimes they say, go
into the little backroom andthe, that little backroom only
has brown people in it.
Mm-hmm.
And I just sit there with myfellow brown people and we're
just waiting.
And there was one time, I thinkit was, I think one of the first
times we went out of the countryand came back in.
I was just sat in there for anhour.
You can't use your phone, youjust have to sit there in
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silence.
And it's the ugliest room fullof the ugliest members of staff.
Mm-hmm.
For, okay, I'll Beit they're notthe problem.
I get it.
I get it.
It's the system.
Mm.
It's a system that's fucked upbecause why is my name being
flagged?
Oh, because I'm a, I have anArabic name.
Okay, I have an Arabic name.
Let's flag this person.
He's brown.
you're a legal, permanentresident of this country.
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Like they all, like you have thepaperwork.
It's, it's, this has never beenlike, this has never been like a
such a big problem now.
Like you shouldn't be afraid ofcoming into the country.
I know like you are a residentof the country and there are
people who having, who arehaving their green cards
revoked.
For speaking out against the,against the crazy work, against
the administration and theirpolicies and it's bonkers.
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That's crazy work.
it's just like I experiencedthis like airport immigration.
fear mongering.
Mm-hmm.
From like my perspective, prettymuch every single time I'm in an
airport mm-hmm.
Ever, like ever since I started,like actually first, the first
time I moved to North America,started happening in Canada,
where anytime I would fly out ofthe country, I think it was just
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out of the country.
It was, yeah.
They would.
Stop me.
This is at I, not evenimmigration.
This is at like check-in.
Yeah.
They wouldn't, I would never beallowed to check in on a flight
ever online.
Ever.
In four years of living inToronto, I was not able to check
in online for a single flight.
Yeah.
So we had to go to the airportand because we still care.
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You still can't check in for aninternational flight
International from the us.
Oh yeah, you're right.
You still can't do that.
Oh yeah, I can.
I can always check myself in.
Oh yeah.
But you can't.
I forgot.
So guys, I can't check in forinternational flights online.
That's crazy.
'cause I need to have like extradocumentation checks at the
Apple because your name is theJohn Smith of Arabic cultures.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Like, what the fuck?
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That's crazy.
It's not even, it's not even, itis like, it's just a common like
surname.
It's a really common surname,but it's crazy that that can't
just be like fly.
I've always questioned like whyI can, you know what they do
flag so I know what happens.
Um, it's happened to me so manytimes, like there have been
times where we've been at theairport at the check-in and we
are at the check-in desk for anhour that one time.
(14:52):
I know.
So, mm.
Post COVID, we got married andthen we were going on like a
little honeymoon esque thingwhere we were going on a trip
out of the country.
We called it a honeymoon for thefirst time'cause we were allowed
to travel.
Yeah.
And.
We, yeah, we went to Europe.
We were like, let's have alittle Italy, Greece trip.
And we were at the airport twoand a half, three hours.
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It was three hours before ourflight.
Before our flight.
I remember being at the airportfor five hours in the end.
Yep.
We were at the airport threehours before our flight and the
lady at the check-in deskcouldn't check me in because she
was trying to like get people onthe phone to like verify my
documents'cause she the personat checking desk.
Has to then call a supervisor orthis person, or that person
mm-hmm.
To like run all my informationthrough a different database
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that she doesn't have access to.
Mm-hmm.
And then they can verify whetheror not I am a threat.
And so that one time she, ittook so long, they couldn't
verify me because she couldn'tget hold of the right person.
I missed my, we missed ourflight.
We literally missed off flightto Italy.
And I was like, well, okay, soyou're putting me on a new one.
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Oh, they already had our bagstoo.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
They checked our bags.
They took them away.
Now I don't let my bag out of myside unless I have my boarding
pass in my fucking hand.
Then I don't let my bag out onmy side.
We meant to go to baggage claimand pick up our bags, which took
another two hours to get off theplane.
Mm-hmm.
yeah, we were at the apple forfive hours and we went back home
and I was like, well, that was awaste of.
Time.
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Just put a little to go back.
Sticky note.
Just, just to go back about yourname somewhere.
I know.
Crazy.
But then I found out like acouple years later, maybe
through like someone else at adifferent, think it was Mexico.
It's North America.
It's North America.
Mm-hmm.
Happened to in Amsterdam.
When we got, when we were goingthrough, it's happening in
Amsterdam.
It's new in Europe.
It's new in Europe.
That's crazy.
So when I used to live inBerlin, I used to check it.
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I, everything was so fine.
Yeah.
Everything was fine.
In Dandy.
If I'm flying out of.
Amsterdam.
'cause we tend to, like when wego to Europe, we tend to fly
into Ship Airport.
Yeah.
'cause it's easier connections.
It's because I'm flying out ofEurope into the US again.
Yeah.
So they do the checks.
If I'm flying from like the UK,actually no native in the UK
anymore.
'cause it's not part of the eu.
(16:56):
Yeah.
It's just a different systemnow.
Yeah.
It's all fucked.
But I think in the continentalEuropean Union, yeah.
I can, I'm fine.
Yeah.
Like the shagging zone.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're fine then.
But yeah.
And now all of a sudden I, I wasin Mexico trying to fly home
here, I think, and then thewoman was just like, I'm so
sorry.
I was like, you are fine.
(17:16):
Mm-hmm.
It happens.
Mm-hmm.
also I go to the airport and Ilook cute as fuck, like, and
they can take obviously one lookat me and be like, you, I'm so
sorry.
You're not a threat.
I'm so sorry.
You're absolutely stunning.
Human being.
I'm so sorry to keep you diva.
How dare we do that to you?
How dare you.
It happens to, it happens to somany people who like to just,
just regular, regular people.
It just happens to us, and I'mlike, well, it's just, it's
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really, it's really scary.
Like it's scary for you, butlike whenever they take you
away, customs and borders, I'mlike.
Have, are you gonna come out ofthe door again?
Are you just gonna be takenaway?
Are you gonna be sent to an ElSalvadorian prison?
That's crazy.
Like this is happening to normalpeople, like everyday people.
It's not out of the, it's notoutta the realm possibility for
you to enter that door and meanthat to never see you again.
It happened to Hasan Pega?
(17:59):
Yeah.
Yeah, you told me about that.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
Hasan got, um, he got taken tothe back rooms and he was
questioned about What do you do?
Yeah, what do you do?
I'm a streamer.
And he's like, oh, what do youstream about?
He's like, oh, I, I game and Italk about like, you know,
politics and shit.
And he's like, what do you thinkabout Trump?
And I'm like, you can't askthem.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You cannot ask that.
You cannot ask about someone'spolitical affiliations.
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Be and, and, and, and keep themfrom coming into the country
because of that.
Yeah.
What would I say?
I'd be like, I, you would lie, Iwould prefer to not answer that
question.
You would have to lie.
Yeah.
I'd lie.
You say, I don't wanna talkabout my politics.
I love lying.
I just, I'm like, diva.
It's just not the time forpolitics.
Like, I don't really love totalk about politics.
I don't really love, actually,we just met, let's not talk
(18:42):
about politics just yet.
Take me out for dinner though.
Literally.
It's bonkers.
It's also bonkers that the USmilitary is coming into la ah,
the Marines.
Ah, so they can't do anythinguntil he, until he invokes the
insurrection.
Act like the Marines can't, likehe can't have the military.
Actually do anything.
(19:03):
They can only guard federalbuildings and federal things.
They can't go and like help withthe pro help quote unquote.
They can't go and deal with theprotests or do anything with the
protesters.
Okay.
They can't do crowd control.
They can't do things like that.
Okay.
The Marines can't, the NationalGuard can'cause of who was, who
was shooting at people.
I saw the ice.
Oh, ew.
ICE was shooting at people.
I saw a, a clip of uh, I guessthe Australian reporter.
(19:27):
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he shot this Australianreporter in the back with a
rubber bullet.
You're not supposed to do thatbecause ice, did you see?
He literally turned around andaimed at her.
It was crazy.
She was just, she was microphonein hand.
Speaking to the camera, she wasshot.
You can't, it's freedom of thepress.
Crazy.
They arrested a CNN reporteryesterday.
Crazy.
A CNN, like a very famous CNNreporter got arrested regime for
(19:47):
reporting the news.
Uhoh, you guys, uhoh, uhoh Uhoh.
Spooky fucking shit.
But that shouldn't stop us fromlike, yes, it's dangerous.
Yes, it's scary.
Yes, it's whatever.
But it shouldn't stop us fromspeaking out and going to do
things.
And even if it's not protesting,like speaking out and just
being.
Present.
And, you know, using whateverplatform you'll have or speaking
to your family is just asimportant as being out there.
(20:09):
Well, I think the most importantthing is to, like midterm
elections are coming up nextyear.
Exactly.
To really hold on until, yeah.
Hold on, hold on.
Jesus Christ.
Hold on, hold on.
Um, just like, exercise yourright to vote.
Like just vote.
Yeah.
But not in a stupid way.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, don't vote for a fuckingidiot.
Easy.
It's kind of easy, like if youthink about it, like, don't be
(20:32):
dumb.
Stop voting for these fucking,There's, there's a lot of things
that we can do to help andvoting.
I I, people have, people havequalms about like, voting as how
important it is, and I, I stillthink it's so crucial.
Like, yeah, Democrats could beshit as fuck.
But sometimes, yeah, it's whatwe have to do.
(20:52):
We have to vote for people whomight not, we might not agree
with on every single issue, butthey're going to help fight with
us on the issues that areimportant.
I'm mad.
you pass that citizenship testand we'll have one more vote in
California.
It'll make a huge difference.
That won't make a difference atall.
California's getting redder.
No, I hate that.
It is.
I hate that.
It is.
We need every vote we can getbecause people like, like
(21:15):
Democrats and liberal peoplearen't, aren't voting in
California.
As much as this is my problem,I'm like, you are an idiot.
Go outside of your fuckinghouse, or you can fucking mail
your ballot in.
Go and vote.
I and Bow go down to the librarydown the road.
Go and bow fuck me.
Go.
And we mail go and fucking bow.
Mm-hmm.
Are you fucking Like all of thisis happening.
(21:36):
It's okay.
I'm not, I'm like pointingfingers, but like, if.
You are like looking at the newsand you're like, oh my God, I
can't believe all this ishappening.
And you didn't vote in the lastelection.
Mm-hmm.
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you,fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
Also, if you voted for Trump, Iknow you're not here and
listening to this.
'cause imagine if we havewouldn't any Trump voters here.
You wouldn't be.
I just like, no, you wouldn'tbe.
(21:58):
I mean,'cause also catch meoutside.
Catch me outside.
I'll catch you outside.
I'll throw these hands.
I just don't give a fuck.
Mm-hmm.
Listen, you are an idiot.
Everyone else, I fucking loveyou.
Thanks for trying.
I also wonder how everyoneoutside of the US sees us.
Well, my friends and my familyare like, are you okay?
(22:20):
Yeah, there's a new thinghappening every day.
Yeah.
And I'm like, Mentally.
No, these are the thing, like wewould see that if this was a
news story happening in a, in,in any other country.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I know.
I, we would be like, oh my God,that could never happen in the
United States of America.
Like this is something that onlyhappens and like where
governments are collapsing, likecountries are dissolving.
(22:42):
I think maybe our government'scollapsing if he does the
insurrection.
Exactly.
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
Uh.
Then the military can come ontothe streets and actually, Ah.
And that's crazy work becauseICE is not the military I'll
also say that we are not.
people know everything aboutprotesting.
We can't, I can't give you anyadvice on what to do at
protests.
I can, there are resources.
Well, I can say that there areresources online that you can
(23:03):
look up to help protests.
Don't wear identifiable clothingthat don't have your face
uncovered.
Bring masks.
Bring goggles.
They're like fucking throwingteargas out there Started
fucking fire, didn't it?
Fucking out.
I saw someone through, lovesomeone through a lime bike.
Over the bridge and it landed ona bunch of cop cars.
(23:26):
You're also throwing ice overthe, over the bridge.
I like that.
Get him.
What I will say about protestsis like the 99% of these
protests are nonviolent andwe've seen that like they're
really great community,community led, um, uh, organized
protests.
Yeah.
And they're really great.
There have been.
Anarchists and there'll alwaysbe these anarchists extra.
(23:46):
No, but it's not the same thing.
Like I'm not saying it's theextra, I'm not saying it's the
same thing I'm saying there arethose, like the people who are
burning way most.
Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure,sure, sure, sure, sure.
But at the same time, it's likeyou are being met with all of
this violence from from thesefucks who are shooting rubber
bullets at just like citizens.
Totally.
And like in rebuttal, someonethrows like a water bottle.
No, no.
(24:06):
That like it's not the samething.
No, I'm not talking about thethrowing water bottle.
I'm talking about the burning,the Waymo's and looting store.
Which happened.
Yeah, which happens, but thatI'm saying that's 0.5% of the
people who are at these protestsnot even 0.05%.
Like the couple of people who,this is what the, this is what
the Fox News and theconservators I know, totally.
I know.
They, they latch onto, which isone of the things that people
are saying like, why these iceraids happened in LA at such an
(24:29):
extent that they want these.
They want this, these videos.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they want this, they wantthe burning waymo's, they want
the Mexican flags waving.
They want all of this, which iswhy they did this in la.
Yeah.
Which has like this, I thinkit's a, it's a majority minority
city.
So had they have more, uh,people, um, of color than white
people and more undocumentedpeople than any other city.
So that's why they're havingthese ICE raids because they
(24:51):
just want this, these optics forthe Steven Millers of the world
and the fucking Fox News hoststo be able to say, look.
It's, these are the people we'retrying to get outta this
country.
And I'm like, ah, yeah, let'snot fo let's focus more So on
the nonviolent side of the andlike, which is like the majority
of protests.
Yeah.
The vast majority.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think, I mean, I remember thisfrom, um, when the mass protests
(25:13):
for the BBL m when movementafter George Floyd in 2020.
2020.
That was five years ago.
That's, yeah.
That was five years ago, likethis month.
Pretty gosh, I think end of May.
Yeah.
That's fucked.
Um, and again, all theseprotests were nonviolent, like
peaceful protests, and weparticipated in as many as we
(25:33):
could in Toronto.
And all you saw in the news waslike the one odd riot, the one
odd like looting situation.
But that's what they, they havegone to.
Yeah.
And that, because that's whatmakes the news.
'cause a nonviolent protest isboring.
Yeah.
But like what I see on my TikTokfeed.
Yeah.
And from videos of people atthese protests.
(25:53):
Yeah.
It's like people dancing, likeabuela is just like being,
that's what we are seeing.
Yeah.
That's what we're seeing becausewe're on the right side of.
The, of humanity.
I'm also getting a lot ofconservative people on my
TikTok.
Not, not a lot, but like ahandful more than I would
normally of on in your comments.
No, no, no, no, no.
On my for you page.
Oh, I was gonna say of cons,like people being like, I'm
(26:15):
rearing for a five.
These ruder I'm rearing for, I'mrearing for a five.
Yeah.
But I'm getting, I, I, I fearthere's like also a lot more
people coming out of thewoodwork, like conservatives and
maga people coming outta thewoodwork than there have before
because it's.
People feel more accepted inthat.
Right, I think at the beginningof like this, I'm gonna call it
a regime.
(26:35):
Mm-hmm.
I remember when the electionresults first came out, I was
like, huh, you guys, let me setyou a scene.
It's election night.
We invite round a bunch offriends'cause we're like, we're
in good spirits.
We are cautiously optimistic.
I made a charcuterie board withAmerican Flags.
Yeah.
And we have like a like athousand um, American flag.
Pins.
Pins, what are they called?
(26:56):
Toothpick thingies.
Toothpicks with American flagsin'em.
Yeah.
Yeah, because I was feelingpatriotic.
I mean, we were all, we were allvery cautiously optimistic and
also it was the first time I'veever like witnessed like an
election.
Actually, we watched the lastelection in Toronto and I was
like, woo, this is so fun.
Great.
Mm-hmm.
Cool.
Didn't really understand it.
Now I understand the electoralcollege.
(27:17):
Mm-hmm.
Unfortunately.
and then I was like, what thefuck is going on?
What's going on?
Um, I also decided,'cause youknow, I'm crazy.
I was like, what if, Hey, youguys, what if we all did a shot
every time a swing state closed,just for fun to keep the mood
and morale high.
It wasn't fun.
And we lost like every, did youleast every swing story?
(27:39):
Yeah.
This year.
That's really crazy.
That is so crazy.
Every single swing.
So.
By the end of the night.
It was, uh, Wednesday night.
Tuesday night?
I don't know.
Yeah.
Tuesday, I think it was aTuesday night.
And I was like, yeah.
It was like slowly, slowly,slowly.
Like the 12 friends that we had,like, they just like kept
leaving.
They would just be like, I haveto go home.
I'm sorry.
And, uh, I'm like, no, we canstill turn this around you guys.
(28:04):
Um, we started to turn the TVoff and go for a walk around
the, around the block.
And I had my wine glasses'causeI was like, I don't feel well.
Yeah.
well,'cause I was expectingsomething so different.
And with Kamel Harris being aBay Area native, she's a Bay
Area, right?
Oakland.
I was like the like I feel likethe celebrations would be so
like they would just the, wewere imagining the after
parties.
(28:25):
I was like, yeah, it would be,this is like, let's pregame does
this, pregame the election andthen go out on a Tuesday night
and like dance in the streets.
Enjoy.
Ah.
And then America couldn't votefor a black woman dead.
And I know.
Fuck you.
That's really crazy.
I'm just like having a reallydifficult time.
The most qualified woman to everrun for this fucking job.
I'm just like confused.
'cause like you guys.
(28:45):
just go and vote.
The midterms are so important.
I remember when I was likestarting to get a little bit
more into like American politicswhen we lived in Toronto.
Yeah.
And I was like watching themidterms.
Oh my God.
I like worked at Nordstrom forlike two weeks.
I remember being in the breakroom and they're like, well, I
think they were announcing orsome stuff about the midterms
was going on in the break room.
And I was like.
(29:06):
I'm really not following.
I don't understand a singlething that's happening.
Yeah.
But it was in between Trump'spresidency still.
What year was this?
This was 2018.
So the, the midterms of Trump'sfirst.
Yeah.
Term.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Democrats took over 2018.
Yeah.
And I remember watching that inthe break room at Nordstrom
(29:27):
2018, and I was like, what'sgoing on?
It feels like it's a good thing.
Yeah.
But then it like helped.
Change things.
Yep.
Because you can, if we have,like right now, they have
control of every single branchof government, including the
Supreme Court, which we can't domuch about the Supreme Court
unfortunately.
but with Congress, if we win, ifwe, if, if the Democrats take
over the Houses of Congress, atleast in one of the houses of
(29:49):
Congress, we can keep thelegislation from actually going
forward.
Any, any negative legislation wedon't want to have.
Go for it.
I guess that's the only hope wehave right now, guys.
the very d um, um, downtrodden.
The trod are down.
The way that your foot is Ben,right?
That is the ugliest.
(30:09):
What the fuck?
He sat in this chair, his foot.
He's got like his tos curled andhis toe, his comfortable.
He's on point.
He's like, he's like wearingpoint shoes, but it's just his
foot.
It looks, it's comfortable.
Your toes are so long.
My toes are really long.
Oh my God.
Put that away.
Put that away.
I guess.
Start a feet finder account.
Put that away.
I hope the camera's not pointingat your fucking feet.
(30:30):
I've thought about making a feetfinder account.
Guys, did you know when Matt waslike, Matt was like, um, getting
started on Instagram?
I think it was maybe in like ourToronto Times.
Yeah, it was very early on andhe had people, he had a, he had
a.
I think it was a Twitter accountdedicated to your feet.
It was one Twitter account thatwas dedicated to Mr.
Ben Field's feet, Mr.
(30:51):
Ben's feet.
Am I still be there?
Who knows?
Mr.
Ben Fields's feet.
I think it was literally calledthat.
And, um, just pictures of andno, like, because you used to
like shoot, like Instagramcontent.
I take like a picture in myliving room with my socks off.
As one does.
Yeah, as one has.
You know, feet and you want themto breathe.
You want my, I want my dogs tobreathe at home.
(31:12):
I don't wanna wear socks all thetime.
No, I, why are you wearing socksnow?
Because in case that could beseen on, I don't want my feet
out now.
I don't wanna see.
Don't worry.
I'm, I'm purposely using my owndiscretion to not point the
camera at your fucking feet.
I'm traumatized.
I'm traumatized from this feet,every single time.
I can see them every day.
They're fine.
They're pretty feet every singletime.
My feet are fine.
(31:32):
We're telling lies every singletime.
I would post something onInstagram, this one account on
Twitter, which had followers.
Yeah, I know.
I don't know how many, but theyhad followers.
Imagine it was me.
It's actually me.
It was probably you takingscreenshots.
They would take a screenshot ofmy fucking, um, Instagram post,
like crop it down to just myfeet.
(31:53):
And then post that on Twitter.
Yeah.
You're fucking Al Toes all overthe screen.
Fuck.
They're fine.
See, this is what I'm saying.
If I did a feet finder account,I would make so much money.
Yeah.
People like weird feet and likeit's not, it's just my feet.
The thing is I should do, youcould be anonymous too.
Look how cute my feet are arecute, but they're dry.
I what?
Your feet are dry.
(32:13):
What?
Your feet are dry.
What do you mean they're dry?
I just, I saw'em the other dayand they were like crackly.
Like, you need moisturizer.
Hey, I do Also, the other dayyou were drunkenly putting them
over a fire thought, oh, I thinkI burned my feet.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I was at my friends.
Listen, you guys, what was thisepisode about?
Um, look, that's, that's theaftermath of that.
(32:35):
That's the aftermath of that.
It's like, it's like, yeah, youburnt your feet.
Yeah, I know.
I was, I got a bit stoned.
Sorry.
Like I was, I was at myfriend's.
Friends', kids' graduation partyand there was a bunch of our
friends from New York and Eastcoast that came over and hadn't
seen them in ages and I justlike had such a fun day.
We were like day drinking andthen got like a little bit
stoned towards the end of theday a little bit, having some
(32:55):
pizza and it was like reallycute and it was like a cute fire
and it was like.
It was giggly and fun and nice,and I, my feet were cold, so I
put my feet close to the fire,not realizing that they were
basically in the fire.
I was like toasting.
I was trying to, I was toastingmy toes, like marshmallows.
I was trying to tell him.
He, his brain was, his brain wason Uranus.
I was trying to tell this bitchto get his, the anus, not mine.
(33:20):
What the fuck?
His feet were.
I could see the skin melting offof his bones.
Yeah.
Well, and he would not move hisfeet from the side because I
couldn't feel it.
Why the fucking kite?
I was like, what are you doing?
Anyways, fuck ice and fuckDonald Trump.
Period.
And that's all I've gotta say.
Sorry, we had to talk about feetfor a second during this episode
(33:41):
about we just, you know, we haveto bring it back, bring it back,
and that's what a dinner tableconversation is about.
Yeah, it is about having theserough conversations really
tough.
You know, political, sometimesyou gotta get political, but
other times you can talk aboutFeet are also political.
Feet are political.
Cool.
And that's what I've alwayssaid.
Ew.
Okay.
Thanks you guys for listening.
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We will wait.
No, we have the new segment thatwe created.
What the fuck did, I can'tremember the segment that we
created.
Uh, who do you Hate?
Oh, that was a, that was thesegment.
That's a good segment.
Was it?
Is it called?
Who do you hate?
I can't remember.
I have confirmed that the titleof the segment is, what do you
Hate the most this week?
Yeah, let me just clip thataudio and just include it on
(34:25):
everyone.
Okay.
Because that was really good.
Thank you.
I can do better.
Who or what do you hate?
The mug this week?
Yeah, both.
Do you have a little list then?
Let me have, let me do it onemore time.
I did, I did get a little liststhen I did get a little, little
bit of a list then.
Are you okay?
No.
Okay.
(34:45):
3, 2, 1.
Who the most that we, who themost.
Just fucking say it.
I don't care anymore.
Just do it.
Don't do it.
You have to s it.
Just do it.
You have to sing it.
3, 2, 1.
Who or what do you hate the mostis weak.
Yeah.
Perfect Mine.
I mean, is there anything elsethat I can hate?
(35:05):
No.
Besides Donald Trump.
Trump, there's been like a hatecampaign for every single
Republican I've ever laid eyeson.
I fucking hate the Republicanparty.
That's good.
That's just make it general.
The Republican Party, I don'teven care if you're a good
Republican, you are complicitbecause you're standing beside
of Donald Trump.
If you support Donald Trump inany way.
You are complicit in everythingnegative that is happening.
(35:28):
Everything, even if he does onegood thing, quote unquote, good
thing, everything else, youcannot, you cannot stand by and
be like, oh, I, I, I like hisTCE boat.
I don't care.
I hate he's sending people todetention centers in Guantanamo
Bay.
Fuck you.
Yeah, okay.
Whoa.
No.
And I'm like, how do I add tothat?
I hate actually everyone.
(35:48):
Okay.
Yeah.
What do you mean everyone'sannoying me?
Who?
Everybody.
Be specific.
It can be everybody in the worldamongst people.
That's one of the rules of thissegment.
Oh, you can't just like hateeveryone and everything.
Well, you just hate an entire,that's every one of the
Republican party.
Yeah, that's true.
I can't also say that.
Oh, I can't.
You could also say that.
Yeah.
But if I said like Trump or ice,that's boring.
(36:11):
But that's who you hate rightnow.
Yeah, you're right.
Is there anyone else that youhate?
That one ice piece of shit thatshut the Australian reporter
great because she was really sadafter that.
Well she actually like let out alittle bit of a laugh in a, like
a nervous laugh.
And I was like, deep, get up.
She was scared for her life.
Yeah.
I, yeah.
I hope be too.
Fuck.
Um, you can hate that fuckingIsaac for sure.
(36:32):
I hate more people for sure.
For sure.
I hate more people.
Come on, think Thinkink.
God damnit.
Think this should be easy.
Who do I hate?
You're full of hatred.
I know, I know.
Charlie Kirk.
the one with the weird hair.
He went onto the um, I think itwas on Jubilee.
Oh that one.
How the fuck Jubilee?
(36:53):
Do you know what?
Yep.
Guys, I dunno if you know this,but Jubilee asked me to like be
on their like shows a coupletimes and I like went to LA and
was on the one like, guess whichone is.
Not from the uk.
They like had like the cutesyone.
Yeah.
The, when they used to do cutesylittle cutesy little lady book
videos rather than being likefive conservatives versus one
(37:15):
liberal.
Yeah.
Five.
Yeah.
And my one was like, Because um,we had to like, guess who was
not British.
Yeah.
And it was like six of us.
And one of the guys I got votedout quite early on actually.
Yeah.
Because they were like, you.
you're fing right now.
I was trying so hard to justlike be myself and all of a
sudden they were like, this justfeels a bit suspicious.
But everyone's accents were likeBritish.
(37:36):
And the one guy who was like soBritish was American crazy.
Anyway, fuck Jubilee.
'cause all they do is createthese like clickbait videos and
they just like incite so muchlike.
De like not even, it's not evenhealthy.
It's not healthy debate.
They just cause fights and theyjust want people to like argue
(37:57):
and it's for, there's no purposebehind it.
No one changing their minds.
No one's changing anyone'sminds.
They're like, this isentertaining.
People love to watch, likemm-hmm.
That people fighting.
I think that's crazy.
I could never turn that on andwatch it like, and be like, this
is entertaining.
Yeah.
They platform the worst people.
Exactly.
They platform the fucking worstpeople and they, the clips that
(38:18):
are like the most like divisive,go the most viral and it's like,
well, what the fuck is the pointof any of this?
Mm-hmm.
For them to make money off ofthose clips.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, they're like monetizingtheir entire platform and
Exactly.
All, and they, they don't payanyone to be honest.
Nope.
Don't pay anyone to be on it.
And I'm like, oh, that'd be fun.
A fun thing to do while we're inLA And they offered you to come
back for some more.
Didn't.
Yeah.
I was like, fuck no.
(38:38):
Mm-hmm.
You've pissed me off.
Hate Jubilee.
Well, I, we will, well, if youloved this podcast, then please
give us a thumbs up, not athumbs down.
In the description, we're gonnalist some places where you can
donate, if you can, for these,for these ice raids and for to
help the protesters andeverything.
Um, some resources that you canuse as well.
(39:00):
Um, and if you wanna leave us tofive star review on Apple
Podcasts or Spotify, that wouldbe amazing.
Would love that you guys.
We'll be back next week withsome more bullshit.
Until then, stay safe, divas.
Don't do anything that Iwouldn't do.
So the bar is very, very low.
Be safe.
It's spooky out there.
(39:20):
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
And bug ice.
Bye now.
Hmm.
And buck Ice.
And fuck Ice.
Bye.
Hello.
So in this episode, you mightnotice that the microphone is a
little weird.
Matt decided to lose his braincells yesterday when we were
filming.
This episode and didn't pressthe record button through the
microphones, so it sounds alittle bit funky.
So please, if you just bear withus, we say some pretty serious
things, but also quite funnythings and I just feel like
you'll really enjoy thisepisode.
Please enjoy.
(00:20):
And sorry.
Good afternoon, good evening.
Good morning.
I would say good morning, but itcertainly is not one, but it
could, it's not a good morning,but it could just be a normal
morning.
I was quoing.
What's her face?
What Nancy There?
Huh Nancy Pelosi, when she goton the stage that one time to do
some press conference thing andshe went, I would say good
morning, but it most certainlyis not one tick tack toe.
(00:44):
A winner.
Exactly.
She said the darnedest thing.
Guys, we're talking politicstoday.
We don't do that.
This, that what?
Yeah, we do.
We don't do it that often.
No, we don't.
If we go back through, we chatshit so much.
We don't talk about politicsthat often on this podcast, but
we want to.
What the thing is, is that likewhen we are with our friends,
sure.
We have the conversations thatwe're having on this podcast
generally anyway.
(01:04):
Mm-hmm.
Like this is the kind of shitthat we talk about with our
friends all the time.
We're talking about like ourlike, like stories and we're
trying shit and we're like beingweird.
But other times we're havingreally deep conversations about
like shit's going on in theworld and right now the shit
that's going on in the fuckingworld, you guys, it's a lot.
I mean, at, at a dinner table, Ihave a pimple.
(01:25):
Oh, come on.
Inside.
Like my moth tattoo has like alittle bit of the thing missing
and there's, I can see it,there's pimple right in the
middle of the, the bit of thetattoo that there is not.
Tattooing it, and it's right inthe center of the moth and
there's a, a pimple right in themiddle of that.
I don't wanna talk.
Stop popping your pimples.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Ow.
Stop it.
Stop popping your pimples.
Leave them.
You're in a scar and there'sgonna be a little scar inside of
(01:46):
the moth.
Anyways, at the dinner table, wetalk about everything.
We goof around, we talk aboutsilly shit, but we can also talk
about politics because that'swhat a gym table's for.
You just chat about everythingthat's happening, and right now
the things that are happening inCalifornia and LA specifically
are crazy, fucking atrocious.
My mom, my mom actually text me.
Well, she WhatsApp me and shewas like, are you, are you okay?
Mm-hmm.
(02:06):
I turned on the news.
My mom hates the news'cause shejust hates to be sad.
Well, she also thinks SanFrancisco is right beside of la
No, but she's like, you know,they, they're, they're, they're
saying it's California specific.
Yeah.
The whole thing.
So, yeah.
So it's the whole state is onfire.
It's not, yeah.
Yeah.
But I mean, yeah.
It's a crazy time.
It's been a crazy time since thebeginning of this year.
Mm-hmm.
(02:26):
Because we have a, a fat pieceof shit, Cheeto.
In the White House.
Don't I?
I think we need to stopinsulting Cheetos like that
because I thought you were gonnasay stop insulting people like
that.
No, the Cheetos.
I need to stop insulting theCheetos.
That was crazy.
The Cheetos are, Cheetos aregreat.
(02:47):
Donald Trump is not crazy work.
You guys.
Let's, let's dig into what ishappening currently.
Not that we're like newsbroadcasters or anything, we
just have like some thoughts,especially as me an immigrant.
Being an immigrant is a crucialpart of our story together.
Being immigrants has been.
Exactly, yeah.
Because we've both beenimmigrants to multiple
countries, and my parents areimmigrants who live in a
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different country.
Everyone is an immigrant.
Everyone's an immigrant.
everyone is a fucking immigrant.
No one is illegal on stolenland.
Tea named the episode.
Period.
Yeah.
So you guys, I don't know, it'scrazy.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I feel like this happens and ithas been happening for so long.
Like you, you, you turn onsocial media and there's all of
a sudden, every like six monthsor so, there's huge crazy
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fucking shit storm that happens.
And it takes a world by stormmore often than that.
It's crazy.
And it feels like that you, weare currently living through
another historic.
World event.
Mm-hmm.
And we keep living through likethese crazy historic world
events.
I think it's important,especially with people that have
a platform, and I know we don'tthink generally, we've done
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enough in the past to discussall, even just not even.
Bring to light.
'cause the light is shiningfucking brightly.
You're not opening your eyes,you're an idiot.
sometimes it's like, what can,what can you say?
Like, when you, I don't know,like sometimes it feels point,
not, not pointless, but like asan influencer, as someone with a
platform, as people withplatforms, it feels like there
are so many people speaking outonline.
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It's like, what does my voice, Ithink one of the most, most
important things for people tolike see though with their
favorite creators and their,their favorite influences.
And celebrities is, do yousupport the causes that I
support?
Mm-hmm.
Because if so, then I know thatI can align myself with you as a
person.
We do this with brands all thetime.
Mm-hmm.
Like it's pride month and we'relike, okay, we're not gonna work
with this branch because theydonated money to, uh, the
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Republican campaign or whateverthe fuck.
Mm-hmm.
So we are like, maybe we're likethat to some people.
Mm-hmm.
And people wanna know, do yousupport Palestine?
Yes.
Do you support immigrants?
Yes.
Do you support trans people?
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Do you support.
Any marginalized fuckingcommunity like a billion times?
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
And it's just important forpeople to know that.
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But I think specifically withlike what's happening in la, it
hits very close to home for us.
Since you are a green cardholder.
And it's people telling to stopsaying that online though, like
I said it, I said it and someonein the comment section was like,
don't don't say specificallywhat your like actual
immigration status is.
Yeah.
It's a little dangerous at themoment.
Yeah.
But I think it's not just, noteven just green card card
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holders and undocumented peopleand people with, um, certain
statuses in the us It's alsocitizens that are being caught
up in this.
Like you see crazy citizensbeing detained.
You see people at these protestswho are citizens and might have
the right paperwork.
I start taking them in andsaying their paperwork is fake,
even if they're US citizens.
Crazy.
Like it's not just, it's not,it's not just undocumented
peoples.
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It's everyone.
Yeah.
And that's the scary part.
No, this is the, this is theproblem.
So this is my issue.
Sorry, this, sorry guys.
This is gonna be a bit heavy.
This is my issue.
This is my issue.
Mm-hmm.
Fucking annoyed.
I'm fucking annoyed.
Let me lighten up a bit.
Let me talk about some serioustopics whilst also being like
myself and like not, I'm gettingangry, but at the same time I'm
like.
I don't wanna be like yellingthrough this entire episode.
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I'm just annoyed that yell.
We like live here and like wechose to live here and I'm so
fucking glad that we did becausemm-hmm.
The life that we've been able tolive is the life that I've
always dreamed of.
Mm-hmm.
But also the lives that all ofthe people who came here legally
or illegally or not, nobody isfucking illegal.
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Mm-hmm.
cause you know what?
It's not fucking crime.
To be undocumented.
It's not a crime.
It's not, it's not a crime.
It's not a crime.
It's not a crime.
You're just here without papers.
It, it's not a crime.
You're living at a federallevel.
You fucking idiots.
And you have a family and youwork and you pay taxes.
And this is the thing.
It's like you pay.
Yeah, exactly.
And here's my, here's my issuewith it.
Like there are these people thatare now in power and they hold
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all of the power.
And there are people who had no.
Foresight or, uh, what's theword I'm looking for?
Just like, what do theChristians, wherewithal.
Wherewithal.
Oh, wherewithal.
Wherewithal.
Wherewithal.
I'm gonna find every, and thatone reason in every episode is
to bring back my favorite word,wherewithal.
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The wherewithal.
Mm.
Did you think I used it rightthen?
I, we can say it mean it meanseverything.
You know what I mean though?
Means whatever you want.
Right.
The wherewithal to considerother fucking people.
Mm-hmm.
Crazy work.
Yeah.
So.
I just think I, there was, so,there were so many people who
were like so loud and proudabout their vote for Trump when
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he won the election and they'relike, he's not gonna do all
these things that he says he isgonna do.
And then tho those people havebeen like drastically impacted
by like, say, tariffs or likemm-hmm.
Other things that are happening.
But tho those are also the kindsof people who just like, don't
give a shit unless it'shappening to them.
Mm-hmm.
And so, unless like.
They need an abortion.
Mm.
And they wouldn't get one.
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They're pro-life, so theywouldn't get one.
But unless they needed one, allof a sudden now it's their
problem.
Mm.
And they're like, oh my God, Ididn't think about that.
But now it is something that, anissue that I'm facing, but I
don't get how you can have thatmindset.
I really don't understand that.
There was someone in ourcomments today on your video.
She was like, she voted aRepublican for most of her life.
And'cause she was only thinkingabout herself.
Yeah.
And then she started votingliberal, she voted, voted more
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democratic.
Okay.
And she, because she's thinkingabout other people now.
Yeah.
And I, I thought you were gonnasay, someone says something.
No, no, no, no.
I was gonna beat them up.
I've, I personally, my mindsethas always been I'm, I'm voting
and I'm doing things and I'mthinking about other people.
I'm also thinking about myselffor sure.
But there, like, why would I, I,I don't underst send people who
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voted for Trump and voted forpeople.
To be like normal, normalfamilies and normal like dads
and moms and kids who were beingdetained and deported just for
not having the right documents.
Yeah.
I, I can't believe that ICEexists as a thing.
Is it explained to me?
I don't know when ICE wascreated.
I don't need to know when.
Please explain to me.
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It's not like a, what, it's justlike a separate organization,
right?
Yep.
It's a separate federal agency.
I am mad.
So I'm mad.
So basically, you guys, if youdidn't know I'm mad.
Um, what the fuck is ICE?
And why are they so annoying?
I don't know who, whichpresident made ice.
I actually don't know history,but ice.
It'd be actually fun to, fun toknow.
fun.
Should I look that up?
Do you know what I Yeah, youlook it up.
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Whilst I tell you my first, myfirst experience, I'm, I'm new
to the country.
I moved here two years ago.
What the fuck is ice?
I was watching Orange is a NewBlack.
When it was like, you know,having, its.
Huge moment.
And there was one season atOrange's New Black that was kind
of dedicated to like immigrantsand undocumented people.
Mm-hmm.
And they, they were, they wereshowing all these ice raids and
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like people were in, even in theprisons, got like separated and
they were being deported.
And it was crazy to watch.
Mm-hmm.
Because I had no idea that thisexisted at that level.
But that was my first like.
Visualization of like ICE as anorganization.
It's horrible of mass terror.
Well, I also, every time I seean ice agent or an ice raid and
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they're all ugly, they're allugly.
They're all ugly, right?
Every time I see them like doingthese horrible things, like
dragging, like tearing familiesapart and dragging people away
into vans, I'm children.
Who are these people and what,like what, how, how do they, are
they just doing their jobs?
I don't know.
Are they just normal peopledoing their jobs?
I don't know.
Do they believe in this?
Are they just like, they justneed some, like, like do they
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just go home to their familiesand you're like, oh my God, how,
Hey honey, how your, how wasyour day?
Day work?
Yeah.
Oh my God, they're so good.
I ripped a 4-year-old away fromits mother.
What the fuck?
You freak how there are so manywords.
There are so many curse words.
Like just, you can let them outin this podcast in my fucking
mouth.
You can let them out.
And I'm just like, I just don'tknow how to say them all without
offending so many people.
Here's a little history lessonso we can all be on the same
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page.
I'm mad, I'm mad.
Ice was established as part of amajor reorganization of the
federal government in responseto the September 11th, 2001
terrorist attacks, the attacksexposed weaknesses in US border
security and immigrationenforcement prompting a
restructuring to bettercoordinate national security
efforts.
'cause it was Okay.
So it was because of nine 11concerns, security concerns.
Right, right.
And that's when the Departmentof Homeland Security was formed
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as well and ICE was part ofthat.
they're sending people to Libya,they're sending people to El
Salvador, they're sending peopleto Guantanamo.
And there are people like,they're, we don't even know
where these people go.
They just like fall off the faceof the earth.
Like Hilmar Brady Garcia.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know about him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So he just got back, but nowthey're charging him.
Oh, were you fucking joking.
So they, we got him back.
He got, he came back.
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But now they're charging himwith these false claims of human
trafficking, and they have himin detention again in the US
because they're trying to gethim on something.
crazy to make themselves like,look, yeah, don't look, but
they're making up shit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like crazy work.
We're fully living in the end ofthis regime, or like the
beginning of a new regime, adic, a dictatorial regime.
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And it's crazy that we're seeingthis happen in real time.
it's just probably for usspecifically be having these
conversations because like, I'vebeen an immigrant in Germany,
I've been an immigrant inCanada.
I'm white obviously, so I, it'sa different experience,
Immigration is, is a key part ofour lives.
Do you know what I find socrazy?
Like I, every since, since thebeginning of this year, or even
like, actually towards the endof last year, every single time
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I come back into the countrynow, I'm like terrified because
I'm always, I don't know if youknow this about me, you guys,
every single time I, well, itused to happen a lot more often
than it does now.
Every time I come into thecountry mm-hmm.
You go through immigrationmm-hmm.
And passport control yeah.
I have my green card and I havemy passport and I show it to
them and it has all myinformation on it, and they just
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like scan it.
And sometimes they get to gothrough, sometimes they say, go
into the little backroom andthe, that little backroom only
has brown people in it.
Mm-hmm.
And I just sit there with myfellow brown people and we're
just waiting.
And there was one time, I thinkit was, I think one of the first
times we went out of the countryand came back in.
I was just sat in there for anhour.
You can't use your phone, youjust have to sit there in
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silence.
And it's the ugliest room fullof the ugliest members of staff.
Mm-hmm.
For, okay, I'll Beit they're notthe problem.
I get it.
I get it.
It's the system.
Mm.
It's a system that's fucked upbecause why is my name being
flagged?
Oh, because I'm a, I have anArabic name.
Okay, I have an Arabic name.
Let's flag this person.
He's brown.
you're a legal, permanentresident of this country.
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Like they all, like you have thepaperwork.
It's, it's, this has never beenlike, this has never been like a
such a big problem now.
Like you shouldn't be afraid ofcoming into the country.
I know like you are a residentof the country and there are
people who having, who arehaving their green cards
revoked.
For speaking out against the,against the crazy work, against
the administration and theirpolicies and it's bonkers.
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That's crazy work.
it's just like I experiencedthis like airport immigration.
fear mongering.
Mm-hmm.
From like my perspective, prettymuch every single time I'm in an
airport mm-hmm.
Ever, like ever since I started,like actually first, the first
time I moved to North America,started happening in Canada,
where anytime I would fly out ofthe country, I think it was just
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out of the country.
It was, yeah.
They would.
Stop me.
This is at I, not evenimmigration.
This is at like check-in.
Yeah.
They wouldn't, I would never beallowed to check in on a flight
ever online.
Ever.
In four years of living inToronto, I was not able to check
in online for a single flight.
Yeah.
So we had to go to the airportand because we still care.
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You still can't check in for aninternational flight
International from the us.
Oh yeah, you're right.
You still can't do that.
Oh yeah, I can.
I can always check myself in.
Oh yeah.
But you can't.
I forgot.
So guys, I can't check in forinternational flights online.
That's crazy.
'cause I need to have like extradocumentation checks at the
Apple because your name is theJohn Smith of Arabic cultures.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Like, what the fuck?
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That's crazy.
It's not even, it's not even, itis like, it's just a common like
surname.
It's a really common surname,but it's crazy that that can't
just be like fly.
I've always questioned like whyI can, you know what they do
flag so I know what happens.
Um, it's happened to me so manytimes, like there have been
times where we've been at theairport at the check-in and we
are at the check-in desk for anhour that one time.
(14:52):
I know.
So, mm.
Post COVID, we got married andthen we were going on like a
little honeymoon esque thingwhere we were going on a trip
out of the country.
We called it a honeymoon for thefirst time'cause we were allowed
to travel.
Yeah.
And.
We, yeah, we went to Europe.
We were like, let's have alittle Italy, Greece trip.
And we were at the airport twoand a half, three hours.
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It was three hours before ourflight.
Before our flight.
I remember being at the airportfor five hours in the end.
Yep.
We were at the airport threehours before our flight and the
lady at the check-in deskcouldn't check me in because she
was trying to like get people onthe phone to like verify my
documents'cause she the personat checking desk.
Has to then call a supervisor orthis person, or that person
mm-hmm.
To like run all my informationthrough a different database
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that she doesn't have access to.
Mm-hmm.
And then they can verify whetheror not I am a threat.
And so that one time she, ittook so long, they couldn't
verify me because she couldn'tget hold of the right person.
I missed my, we missed ourflight.
We literally missed off flightto Italy.
And I was like, well, okay, soyou're putting me on a new one.
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Oh, they already had our bagstoo.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
They checked our bags.
They took them away.
Now I don't let my bag out of myside unless I have my boarding
pass in my fucking hand.
Then I don't let my bag out onmy side.
We meant to go to baggage claimand pick up our bags, which took
another two hours to get off theplane.
Mm-hmm.
yeah, we were at the apple forfive hours and we went back home
and I was like, well, that was awaste of.
Time.
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Just put a little to go back.
Sticky note.
Just, just to go back about yourname somewhere.
I know.
Crazy.
But then I found out like acouple years later, maybe
through like someone else at adifferent, think it was Mexico.
It's North America.
It's North America.
Mm-hmm.
Happened to in Amsterdam.
When we got, when we were goingthrough, it's happening in
Amsterdam.
It's new in Europe.
It's new in Europe.
That's crazy.
So when I used to live inBerlin, I used to check it.
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I, everything was so fine.
Yeah.
Everything was fine.
In Dandy.
If I'm flying out of.
Amsterdam.
'cause we tend to, like when wego to Europe, we tend to fly
into Ship Airport.
Yeah.
'cause it's easier connections.
It's because I'm flying out ofEurope into the US again.
Yeah.
So they do the checks.
If I'm flying from like the UK,actually no native in the UK
anymore.
'cause it's not part of the eu.
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Yeah.
It's just a different systemnow.
Yeah.
It's all fucked.
But I think in the continentalEuropean Union, yeah.
I can, I'm fine.
Yeah.
Like the shagging zone.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're fine then.
But yeah.
And now all of a sudden I, I wasin Mexico trying to fly home
here, I think, and then thewoman was just like, I'm so
sorry.
I was like, you are fine.
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Mm-hmm.
It happens.
Mm-hmm.
also I go to the airport and Ilook cute as fuck, like, and
they can take obviously one lookat me and be like, you, I'm so
sorry.
You're not a threat.
I'm so sorry.
You're absolutely stunning.
Human being.
I'm so sorry to keep you diva.
How dare we do that to you?
How dare you.
It happens to, it happens to somany people who like to just,
just regular, regular people.
It just happens to us, and I'mlike, well, it's just, it's
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really, it's really scary.
Like it's scary for you, butlike whenever they take you
away, customs and borders, I'mlike.
Have, are you gonna come out ofthe door again?
Are you just gonna be takenaway?
Are you gonna be sent to an ElSalvadorian prison?
That's crazy.
Like this is happening to normalpeople, like everyday people.
It's not out of the, it's notoutta the realm possibility for
you to enter that door and meanthat to never see you again.
It happened to Hasan Pega?
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Yeah.
Yeah, you told me about that.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
Hasan got, um, he got taken tothe back rooms and he was
questioned about What do you do?
Yeah, what do you do?
I'm a streamer.
And he's like, oh, what do youstream about?
He's like, oh, I, I game and Italk about like, you know,
politics and shit.
And he's like, what do you thinkabout Trump?
And I'm like, you can't askthem.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You cannot ask that.
You cannot ask about someone'spolitical affiliations.
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Be and, and, and, and keep themfrom coming into the country
because of that.
Yeah.
What would I say?
I'd be like, I, you would lie, Iwould prefer to not answer that
question.
You would have to lie.
Yeah.
I'd lie.
You say, I don't wanna talkabout my politics.
I love lying.
I just, I'm like, diva.
It's just not the time forpolitics.
Like, I don't really love totalk about politics.
I don't really love, actually,we just met, let's not talk
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about politics just yet.
Take me out for dinner though.
Literally.
It's bonkers.
It's also bonkers that the USmilitary is coming into la ah,
the Marines.
Ah, so they can't do anythinguntil he, until he invokes the
insurrection.
Act like the Marines can't, likehe can't have the military.
Actually do anything.
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They can only guard federalbuildings and federal things.
They can't go and like help withthe pro help quote unquote.
They can't go and deal with theprotests or do anything with the
protesters.
Okay.
They can't do crowd control.
They can't do things like that.
Okay.
The Marines can't, the NationalGuard can'cause of who was, who
was shooting at people.
I saw the ice.
Oh, ew.
ICE was shooting at people.
I saw a, a clip of uh, I guessthe Australian reporter.
(19:27):
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he shot this Australianreporter in the back with a
rubber bullet.
You're not supposed to do thatbecause ice, did you see?
He literally turned around andaimed at her.
It was crazy.
She was just, she was microphonein hand.
Speaking to the camera, she wasshot.
You can't, it's freedom of thepress.
Crazy.
They arrested a CNN reporteryesterday.
Crazy.
A CNN, like a very famous CNNreporter got arrested regime for
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reporting the news.
Uhoh, you guys, uhoh, uhoh Uhoh.
Spooky fucking shit.
But that shouldn't stop us fromlike, yes, it's dangerous.
Yes, it's scary.
Yes, it's whatever.
But it shouldn't stop us fromspeaking out and going to do
things.
And even if it's not protesting,like speaking out and just
being.
Present.
And, you know, using whateverplatform you'll have or speaking
to your family is just asimportant as being out there.
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Well, I think the most importantthing is to, like midterm
elections are coming up nextyear.
Exactly.
To really hold on until, yeah.
Hold on, hold on.
Jesus Christ.
Hold on, hold on.
Um, just like, exercise yourright to vote.
Like just vote.
Yeah.
But not in a stupid way.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, don't vote for a fuckingidiot.
Easy.
It's kind of easy, like if youthink about it, like, don't be
(20:32):
dumb.
Stop voting for these fucking,There's, there's a lot of things
that we can do to help andvoting.
I I, people have, people havequalms about like, voting as how
important it is, and I, I stillthink it's so crucial.
Like, yeah, Democrats could beshit as fuck.
But sometimes, yeah, it's whatwe have to do.
(20:52):
We have to vote for people whomight not, we might not agree
with on every single issue, butthey're going to help fight with
us on the issues that areimportant.
I'm mad.
you pass that citizenship testand we'll have one more vote in
California.
It'll make a huge difference.
That won't make a difference atall.
California's getting redder.
No, I hate that.
It is.
I hate that.
It is.
We need every vote we can getbecause people like, like
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Democrats and liberal peoplearen't, aren't voting in
California.
As much as this is my problem,I'm like, you are an idiot.
Go outside of your fuckinghouse, or you can fucking mail
your ballot in.
Go and vote.
I and Bow go down to the librarydown the road.
Go and bow fuck me.
Go.
And we mail go and fucking bow.
Mm-hmm.
Are you fucking Like all of thisis happening.
(21:36):
It's okay.
I'm not, I'm like pointingfingers, but like, if.
You are like looking at the newsand you're like, oh my God, I
can't believe all this ishappening.
And you didn't vote in the lastelection.
Mm-hmm.
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you,fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
Also, if you voted for Trump, Iknow you're not here and
listening to this.
'cause imagine if we havewouldn't any Trump voters here.
You wouldn't be.
I just like, no, you wouldn'tbe.
(21:58):
I mean,'cause also catch meoutside.
Catch me outside.
I'll catch you outside.
I'll throw these hands.
I just don't give a fuck.
Mm-hmm.
Listen, you are an idiot.
Everyone else, I fucking loveyou.
Thanks for trying.
I also wonder how everyoneoutside of the US sees us.
Well, my friends and my familyare like, are you okay?
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Yeah, there's a new thinghappening every day.
Yeah.
And I'm like, Mentally.
No, these are the thing, like wewould see that if this was a
news story happening in a, in,in any other country.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I know.
I, we would be like, oh my God,that could never happen in the
United States of America.
Like this is something that onlyhappens and like where
governments are collapsing, likecountries are dissolving.
(22:42):
I think maybe our government'scollapsing if he does the
insurrection.
Exactly.
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
Uh.
Then the military can come ontothe streets and actually, Ah.
And that's crazy work becauseICE is not the military I'll
also say that we are not.
people know everything aboutprotesting.
We can't, I can't give you anyadvice on what to do at
protests.
I can, there are resources.
Well, I can say that there areresources online that you can
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look up to help protests.
Don't wear identifiable clothingthat don't have your face
uncovered.
Bring masks.
Bring goggles.
They're like fucking throwingteargas out there Started
fucking fire, didn't it?
Fucking out.
I saw someone through, lovesomeone through a lime bike.
Over the bridge and it landed ona bunch of cop cars.
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You're also throwing ice overthe, over the bridge.
I like that.
Get him.
What I will say about protestsis like the 99% of these
protests are nonviolent andwe've seen that like they're
really great community,community led, um, uh, organized
protests.
Yeah.
And they're really great.
There have been.
Anarchists and there'll alwaysbe these anarchists extra.
(23:46):
No, but it's not the same thing.
Like I'm not saying it's theextra, I'm not saying it's the
same thing I'm saying there arethose, like the people who are
burning way most.
Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure,sure, sure, sure, sure.
But at the same time, it's likeyou are being met with all of
this violence from from thesefucks who are shooting rubber
bullets at just like citizens.
Totally.
And like in rebuttal, someonethrows like a water bottle.
No, no.
(24:06):
That like it's not the samething.
No, I'm not talking about thethrowing water bottle.
I'm talking about the burning,the Waymo's and looting store.
Which happened.
Yeah, which happens, but thatI'm saying that's 0.5% of the
people who are at these protestsnot even 0.05%.
Like the couple of people who,this is what the, this is what
the Fox News and theconservators I know, totally.
I know.
They, they latch onto, which isone of the things that people
are saying like, why these iceraids happened in LA at such an
(24:29):
extent that they want these.
They want this, these videos.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they want this, they wantthe burning waymo's, they want
the Mexican flags waving.
They want all of this, which iswhy they did this in la.
Yeah.
Which has like this, I thinkit's a, it's a majority minority
city.
So had they have more, uh,people, um, of color than white
people and more undocumentedpeople than any other city.
So that's why they're havingthese ICE raids because they
(24:51):
just want this, these optics forthe Steven Millers of the world
and the fucking Fox News hoststo be able to say, look.
It's, these are the people we'retrying to get outta this
country.
And I'm like, ah, yeah, let'snot fo let's focus more So on
the nonviolent side of the andlike, which is like the majority
of protests.
Yeah.
The vast majority.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think, I mean, I remember thisfrom, um, when the mass protests
(25:13):
for the BBL m when movementafter George Floyd in 2020.
2020.
That was five years ago.
That's, yeah.
That was five years ago, likethis month.
Pretty gosh, I think end of May.
Yeah.
That's fucked.
Um, and again, all theseprotests were nonviolent, like
peaceful protests, and weparticipated in as many as we
(25:33):
could in Toronto.
And all you saw in the news waslike the one odd riot, the one
odd like looting situation.
But that's what they, they havegone to.
Yeah.
And that, because that's whatmakes the news.
'cause a nonviolent protest isboring.
Yeah.
But like what I see on my TikTokfeed.
Yeah.
And from videos of people atthese protests.
(25:53):
Yeah.
It's like people dancing, likeabuela is just like being,
that's what we are seeing.
Yeah.
That's what we're seeing becausewe're on the right side of.
The, of humanity.
I'm also getting a lot ofconservative people on my
TikTok.
Not, not a lot, but like ahandful more than I would
normally of on in your comments.
No, no, no, no, no.
On my for you page.
Oh, I was gonna say of cons,like people being like, I'm
(26:15):
rearing for a five.
These ruder I'm rearing for, I'mrearing for a five.
Yeah.
But I'm getting, I, I, I fearthere's like also a lot more
people coming out of thewoodwork, like conservatives and
maga people coming outta thewoodwork than there have before
because it's.
People feel more accepted inthat.
Right, I think at the beginningof like this, I'm gonna call it
a regime.
(26:35):
Mm-hmm.
I remember when the electionresults first came out, I was
like, huh, you guys, let me setyou a scene.
It's election night.
We invite round a bunch offriends'cause we're like, we're
in good spirits.
We are cautiously optimistic.
I made a charcuterie board withAmerican Flags.
Yeah.
And we have like a like athousand um, American flag.
Pins.
Pins, what are they called?
(26:56):
Toothpick thingies.
Toothpicks with American flagsin'em.
Yeah.
Yeah, because I was feelingpatriotic.
I mean, we were all, we were allvery cautiously optimistic and
also it was the first time I'veever like witnessed like an
election.
Actually, we watched the lastelection in Toronto and I was
like, woo, this is so fun.
Great.
Mm-hmm.
Cool.
Didn't really understand it.
Now I understand the electoralcollege.
(27:17):
Mm-hmm.
Unfortunately.
and then I was like, what thefuck is going on?
What's going on?
Um, I also decided,'cause youknow, I'm crazy.
I was like, what if, Hey, youguys, what if we all did a shot
every time a swing state closed,just for fun to keep the mood
and morale high.
It wasn't fun.
And we lost like every, did youleast every swing story?
(27:39):
Yeah.
This year.
That's really crazy.
That is so crazy.
Every single swing.
So.
By the end of the night.
It was, uh, Wednesday night.
Tuesday night?
I don't know.
Yeah.
Tuesday, I think it was aTuesday night.
And I was like, yeah.
It was like slowly, slowly,slowly.
Like the 12 friends that we had,like, they just like kept
leaving.
They would just be like, I haveto go home.
I'm sorry.
And, uh, I'm like, no, we canstill turn this around you guys.
(28:04):
Um, we started to turn the TVoff and go for a walk around
the, around the block.
And I had my wine glasses'causeI was like, I don't feel well.
Yeah.
well,'cause I was expectingsomething so different.
And with Kamel Harris being aBay Area native, she's a Bay
Area, right?
Oakland.
I was like the like I feel likethe celebrations would be so
like they would just the, wewere imagining the after
parties.
(28:25):
I was like, yeah, it would be,this is like, let's pregame does
this, pregame the election andthen go out on a Tuesday night
and like dance in the streets.
Enjoy.
Ah.
And then America couldn't votefor a black woman dead.
And I know.
Fuck you.
That's really crazy.
I'm just like having a reallydifficult time.
The most qualified woman to everrun for this fucking job.
I'm just like confused.
'cause like you guys.
(28:45):
just go and vote.
The midterms are so important.
I remember when I was likestarting to get a little bit
more into like American politicswhen we lived in Toronto.
Yeah.
And I was like watching themidterms.
Oh my God.
I like worked at Nordstrom forlike two weeks.
I remember being in the breakroom and they're like, well, I
think they were announcing orsome stuff about the midterms
was going on in the break room.
And I was like.
(29:06):
I'm really not following.
I don't understand a singlething that's happening.
Yeah.
But it was in between Trump'spresidency still.
What year was this?
This was 2018.
So the, the midterms of Trump'sfirst.
Yeah.
Term.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Democrats took over 2018.
Yeah.
And I remember watching that inthe break room at Nordstrom
(29:27):
2018, and I was like, what'sgoing on?
It feels like it's a good thing.
Yeah.
But then it like helped.
Change things.
Yep.
Because you can, if we have,like right now, they have
control of every single branchof government, including the
Supreme Court, which we can't domuch about the Supreme Court
unfortunately.
but with Congress, if we win, ifwe, if, if the Democrats take
over the Houses of Congress, atleast in one of the houses of
(29:49):
Congress, we can keep thelegislation from actually going
forward.
Any, any negative legislation wedon't want to have.
Go for it.
I guess that's the only hope wehave right now, guys.
the very d um, um, downtrodden.
The trod are down.
The way that your foot is Ben,right?
That is the ugliest.
(30:09):
What the fuck?
He sat in this chair, his foot.
He's got like his tos curled andhis toe, his comfortable.
He's on point.
He's like, he's like wearingpoint shoes, but it's just his
foot.
It looks, it's comfortable.
Your toes are so long.
My toes are really long.
Oh my God.
Put that away.
Put that away.
I guess.
Start a feet finder account.
Put that away.
I hope the camera's not pointingat your fucking feet.
(30:30):
I've thought about making a feetfinder account.
Guys, did you know when Matt waslike, Matt was like, um, getting
started on Instagram?
I think it was maybe in like ourToronto Times.
Yeah, it was very early on andhe had people, he had a, he had
a.
I think it was a Twitter accountdedicated to your feet.
It was one Twitter account thatwas dedicated to Mr.
Ben Field's feet, Mr.
(30:51):
Ben's feet.
Am I still be there?
Who knows?
Mr.
Ben Fields's feet.
I think it was literally calledthat.
And, um, just pictures of andno, like, because you used to
like shoot, like Instagramcontent.
I take like a picture in myliving room with my socks off.
As one does.
Yeah, as one has.
You know, feet and you want themto breathe.
You want my, I want my dogs tobreathe at home.
(31:12):
I don't wanna wear socks all thetime.
No, I, why are you wearing socksnow?
Because in case that could beseen on, I don't want my feet
out now.
I don't wanna see.
Don't worry.
I'm, I'm purposely using my owndiscretion to not point the
camera at your fucking feet.
I'm traumatized.
I'm traumatized from this feet,every single time.
I can see them every day.
They're fine.
They're pretty feet every singletime.
My feet are fine.
(31:32):
We're telling lies every singletime.
I would post something onInstagram, this one account on
Twitter, which had followers.
Yeah, I know.
I don't know how many, but theyhad followers.
Imagine it was me.
It's actually me.
It was probably you takingscreenshots.
They would take a screenshot ofmy fucking, um, Instagram post,
like crop it down to just myfeet.
(31:53):
And then post that on Twitter.
Yeah.
You're fucking Al Toes all overthe screen.
Fuck.
They're fine.
See, this is what I'm saying.
If I did a feet finder account,I would make so much money.
Yeah.
People like weird feet and likeit's not, it's just my feet.
The thing is I should do, youcould be anonymous too.
Look how cute my feet are arecute, but they're dry.
I what?
Your feet are dry.
(32:13):
What?
Your feet are dry.
What do you mean they're dry?
I just, I saw'em the other dayand they were like crackly.
Like, you need moisturizer.
Hey, I do Also, the other dayyou were drunkenly putting them
over a fire thought, oh, I thinkI burned my feet.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I was at my friends.
Listen, you guys, what was thisepisode about?
Um, look, that's, that's theaftermath of that.
(32:35):
That's the aftermath of that.
It's like, it's like, yeah, youburnt your feet.
Yeah, I know.
I was, I got a bit stoned.
Sorry.
Like I was, I was at myfriend's.
Friends', kids' graduation partyand there was a bunch of our
friends from New York and Eastcoast that came over and hadn't
seen them in ages and I justlike had such a fun day.
We were like day drinking andthen got like a little bit
stoned towards the end of theday a little bit, having some
(32:55):
pizza and it was like reallycute and it was like a cute fire
and it was like.
It was giggly and fun and nice,and I, my feet were cold, so I
put my feet close to the fire,not realizing that they were
basically in the fire.
I was like toasting.
I was trying to, I was toastingmy toes, like marshmallows.
I was trying to tell him.
He, his brain was, his brain wason Uranus.
I was trying to tell this bitchto get his, the anus, not mine.
(33:20):
What the fuck?
His feet were.
I could see the skin melting offof his bones.
Yeah.
Well, and he would not move hisfeet from the side because I
couldn't feel it.
Why the fucking kite?
I was like, what are you doing?
Anyways, fuck ice and fuckDonald Trump.
Period.
And that's all I've gotta say.
Sorry, we had to talk about feetfor a second during this episode
(33:41):
about we just, you know, we haveto bring it back, bring it back,
and that's what a dinner tableconversation is about.
Yeah, it is about having theserough conversations really
tough.
You know, political, sometimesyou gotta get political, but
other times you can talk aboutFeet are also political.
Feet are political.
Cool.
And that's what I've alwayssaid.
Ew.
Okay.
Thanks you guys for listening.
(34:01):
We will wait.
No, we have the new segment thatwe created.
What the fuck did, I can'tremember the segment that we
created.
Uh, who do you Hate?
Oh, that was a, that was thesegment.
That's a good segment.
Was it?
Is it called?
Who do you hate?
I can't remember.
I have confirmed that the titleof the segment is, what do you
Hate the most this week?
Yeah, let me just clip thataudio and just include it on
(34:25):
everyone.
Okay.
Because that was really good.
Thank you.
I can do better.
Who or what do you hate?
The mug this week?
Yeah, both.
Do you have a little list then?
Let me have, let me do it onemore time.
I did, I did get a little liststhen I did get a little, little
bit of a list then.
Are you okay?
No.
Okay.
(34:45):
3, 2, 1.
Who the most that we, who themost.
Just fucking say it.
I don't care anymore.
Just do it.
Don't do it.
You have to s it.
Just do it.
You have to sing it.
3, 2, 1.
Who or what do you hate the mostis weak.
Yeah.
Perfect Mine.
I mean, is there anything elsethat I can hate?
(35:05):
No.
Besides Donald Trump.
Trump, there's been like a hatecampaign for every single
Republican I've ever laid eyeson.
I fucking hate the Republicanparty.
That's good.
That's just make it general.
The Republican Party, I don'teven care if you're a good
Republican, you are complicitbecause you're standing beside
of Donald Trump.
If you support Donald Trump inany way.
You are complicit in everythingnegative that is happening.
(35:28):
Everything, even if he does onegood thing, quote unquote, good
thing, everything else, youcannot, you cannot stand by and
be like, oh, I, I, I like hisTCE boat.
I don't care.
I hate he's sending people todetention centers in Guantanamo
Bay.
Fuck you.
Yeah, okay.
Whoa.
No.
And I'm like, how do I add tothat?
I hate actually everyone.
(35:48):
Okay.
Yeah.
What do you mean everyone'sannoying me?
Who?
Everybody.
Be specific.
It can be everybody in the worldamongst people.
That's one of the rules of thissegment.
Oh, you can't just like hateeveryone and everything.
Well, you just hate an entire,that's every one of the
Republican party.
Yeah, that's true.
I can't also say that.
Oh, I can't.
You could also say that.
Yeah.
But if I said like Trump or ice,that's boring.
(36:11):
But that's who you hate rightnow.
Yeah, you're right.
Is there anyone else that youhate?
That one ice piece of shit thatshut the Australian reporter
great because she was really sadafter that.
Well she actually like let out alittle bit of a laugh in a, like
a nervous laugh.
And I was like, deep, get up.
She was scared for her life.
Yeah.
I, yeah.
I hope be too.
Fuck.
Um, you can hate that fuckingIsaac for sure.
(36:32):
I hate more people for sure.
For sure.
I hate more people.
Come on, think Thinkink.
God damnit.
Think this should be easy.
Who do I hate?
You're full of hatred.
I know, I know.
Charlie Kirk.
the one with the weird hair.
He went onto the um, I think itwas on Jubilee.
Oh that one.
How the fuck Jubilee?
(36:53):
Do you know what?
Yep.
Guys, I dunno if you know this,but Jubilee asked me to like be
on their like shows a coupletimes and I like went to LA and
was on the one like, guess whichone is.
Not from the uk.
They like had like the cutesyone.
Yeah.
The, when they used to do cutesylittle cutesy little lady book
videos rather than being likefive conservatives versus one
(37:15):
liberal.
Yeah.
Five.
Yeah.
And my one was like, Because um,we had to like, guess who was
not British.
Yeah.
And it was like six of us.
And one of the guys I got votedout quite early on actually.
Yeah.
Because they were like, you.
you're fing right now.
I was trying so hard to justlike be myself and all of a
sudden they were like, this justfeels a bit suspicious.
But everyone's accents were likeBritish.
(37:36):
And the one guy who was like soBritish was American crazy.
Anyway, fuck Jubilee.
'cause all they do is createthese like clickbait videos and
they just like incite so muchlike.
De like not even, it's not evenhealthy.
It's not healthy debate.
They just cause fights and theyjust want people to like argue
(37:57):
and it's for, there's no purposebehind it.
No one changing their minds.
No one's changing anyone'sminds.
They're like, this isentertaining.
People love to watch, likemm-hmm.
That people fighting.
I think that's crazy.
I could never turn that on andwatch it like, and be like, this
is entertaining.
Yeah.
They platform the worst people.
Exactly.
They platform the fucking worstpeople and they, the clips that
(38:18):
are like the most like divisive,go the most viral and it's like,
well, what the fuck is the pointof any of this?
Mm-hmm.
For them to make money off ofthose clips.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, they're like monetizingtheir entire platform and
Exactly.
All, and they, they don't payanyone to be honest.
Nope.
Don't pay anyone to be on it.
And I'm like, oh, that'd be fun.
A fun thing to do while we're inLA And they offered you to come
back for some more.
Didn't.
Yeah.
I was like, fuck no.
(38:38):
Mm-hmm.
You've pissed me off.
Hate Jubilee.
Well, I, we will, well, if youloved this podcast, then please
give us a thumbs up, not athumbs down.
In the description, we're gonnalist some places where you can
donate, if you can, for these,for these ice raids and for to
help the protesters andeverything.
Um, some resources that you canuse as well.
(39:00):
Um, and if you wanna leave us tofive star review on Apple
Podcasts or Spotify, that wouldbe amazing.
Would love that you guys.
We'll be back next week withsome more bullshit.
Until then, stay safe, divas.
Don't do anything that Iwouldn't do.
So the bar is very, very low.
Be safe.
It's spooky out there.
(39:20):
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
And bug ice.
Bye now.
Hmm.
And buck Ice.
And fuck Ice.
Bye.
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