November 15, 2024 • 22 mins
What happens when foundational issues like racism and corruption don't sway voters? Join us on Slap the Power as we wade through the emotional fallout of the recent elections, highlighting a national rift in what were once universally accepted values. We grapple with the disbelief and dissonance felt by many, questioning how these deep-seated issues could possibly be overshadowed. In the midst of this uncertainty, we spotlight the valiant efforts of some political figures and confront the chaotic influence of misinformation from digital moguls like Elon Musk. With this backdrop, we stress the urgent need for action towards positive change and a rekindling of the core principles meant to bind us all.
From politics to pugilism, we shift gears to the thrilling spectacle of an upcoming boxing match between social media sensation Jake Paul and boxing legend Mike Tyson, streaming soon on Netflix. Reminisce with us about Tyson's nostalgic days from Nintendo glory to intense advocacy for his beloved pigeons. Discover the surprising talents of these underestimated birds, from detecting cancer to predicting volcanic eruptions, and delve into Tyson’s potential plans for a pigeon protection initiative. As we sail through this diverse narrative, get ready to explore the exciting, the unexpected, and everything in between on Slap the Power.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, the world may not need another podcast,
but it could definitely use aslap.
Welcome to Slap the Power, theshow that crosses artists who
are using their powers forprogress.
I'm Rick Barrio-Dill.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And I'm Asia Nakia, that's right.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
On the show today.
You've heard a million takesand we're going to give you one
more the election recap and kindof a change of purpose here.
At Slap the Power, which isawesome, we hit our new animal
rescue segment, paws forProgress, where we get into
pigeons and Mike Tyson His firstfight was over a pigeon which I
(00:32):
did not know, and it's aproposwhat's coming up this weekend
with the Jake Paul-Tyson fightand a little later we get into
two scams and a slap where wetake three batshit crazy events,
two of which are fake but oneis real, and one of us, one of
the two of us, in real time,along with you, the listener
learns which one is true andwhich one is a slap in the face
(00:53):
of reality.
Okay, but first we were talkingabout this show format and it
just did not seem.
This is not a normal episode,did not seem.
This is not a normal episode.
You know this is post-electionand so we felt that it was very
important to kind of be as sortof open as possible, with us
(01:15):
having the Harris campaign nextdoor and stuff like that.
And so, first up, miss AsiaNakia, how do you feel after the
elections?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You know, I think when we left the office that
night I was just still sort ofin a state of shock.
And then the days followingwere a bit tough.
I just felt my body very heavy,you know, and I was struggling
to like get myself out of bedpretty much.
And since then, you know, I'vepicked myself up off the floor
(01:48):
literally and, you know, usingall of that energy and putting
it into this show and the goodthings we're doing.
You know that really I had toshift my mindset a bit because
it was a very sombering momentfor me, for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
There's a dissonance that is created, a cognitive
dissonance that is created.
That's asking 70 million of usto, you know, to accept
something that we know.
We have 10 years of evidence tobe true.
(02:47):
I'm encouraged because we haveso many Republicans from, you
know, the Cheneys to the insaneclown posse to you that somebody
being a racist, wanting to, youknow, kind of nationalize the
country.
We're gonna start to see thatmore and more and that's a tough
thing to swallow when we'relike, okay, racism wasn't a a
deal breaker, the you know, andnone of it was a deal breaker.
And that's what's.
I think.
For me it's like for a while Iwas like it was.
(03:09):
It's a tough hit, but again, ahundred times out of a hundred,
I, we, we, we go all in withwhat we got.
I think, like we said at thetop, there's there's a lot of
takes on this, but I think Joe,joe Biden obviously deserves his
share of the blame for kind of,you know, putting the country
and the Democratic Party andsuch in a situation like that.
(03:29):
But even if you put that aside,this is much, much, much bigger
than that.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I think back to like my grandma, and you know how we
were raised and the ethos thatwere instilled in us.
You know, at a young age andyou go through like this sort of
like top five list, you knowsort of like the, the, the, the
10 commandments, but you knowthe, the manner commandments
that we, that we live by, andthose were things like you know,
have manners, respect oneanother, respect women.
(03:59):
You know no cursing and, andyou know these things don't
break laws, don't kill people,don't you know no cursing?
And you know these things Don'tbreak laws, don't kill people,
don't you know?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And it's just Don't accept a $10 million bag of cash
from the.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Egyptians on day one, that's number nine.
Yeah, that was on there too.
I was taught not to do that.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, you can launder it through
crypto, because then they can'tcatch it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
So I think you know it's hard to wrap your head
around the most basic notions ofhumanity.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And the things that we thought were important and
the fact that all of thesepeople don't think those things
are important.
So, like the fact that we havesuch different ethos in this
country, I think is really hardto understand for most people,
because you'd like to think thatmost people are good and you'd
like to think that most peopleunderstand racism is wrong, that
(04:54):
you shouldn't steal, youshouldn't cheat, you shouldn't
lie.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
But it's.
You shouldn't be anti any groupof people.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You shouldn't be grabbing women by their you know
.
But the fact that that's okaywith everyone for very small,
like you know, economicimprovements that they have in
their head.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, well, inflation , when you can sell it as you
know the way it was and Iunderstand most people aren't,
you know they're not in it likewe are literally being 10 feet
away from you know a campaignthat was kind of, you know, had
100 days to get it together andreally compete in the seven
states which, by the way, shedid and if there was a memo that
(05:34):
was leaked and if indeed theyhad internal polling in the
Biden administration that he wasgoing to lose by 400 electoral
votes at a specific time, thenyou can look at what she did.
Is is incredible and you wonderwhat.
What might have happened if youknow Elon Musk wasn't spewing
lies and spewing his propaganda,because ultimately, that's the
(05:58):
toughest thing.
We're going to see the thingson television and they're going
to do it.
Cruelty for cruelty's sake,right?
We know it's coming.
We know the people that you canjust, and so most people didn't
sign up for that, right, and sothere's grace in that, and I
think most people are like yo,we want less.
You know immigration, and blah,blah, blah, but they're just
(06:20):
voting on, you know, okay, achange candidate, right, if
you're thinking that she wasn'tchanged, and I think that's kind
of the thing where we realized,you know, we had kind of taken,
I think, the show as far as wecould, with its sort of, it has
had very a national sort of lean.
Yeah, uh, shout out to my sykesfor and and because when it was
(06:42):
started it was a lot of thestuff was either local that we
were concentrating on or thingsthat were here in the us and and
.
So this is what's so great iswhat this has shown us and
allowed us to even have aclearer vision on what we can do
with.
The show is global and, youknow, animal-based, you know,
and animal-centric in a sense of.
(07:05):
We're still going to con, we'restill going to comment on
social context and progress, butthere's a purple lane here
where we're going to have tofigure how to, how to sort of
come together because, um, yeah,you know, it's like we don't
really know.
So it's like somebody can't say, well, we're going to be okay,
(07:25):
be okay.
What's the big deal, what's theworst that could happen?
It's like, yeah, we don't comeon.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Really, Really and so , unfortunately, yeah, we're
going to need each other andthat's why I think you do so
much on the ground work everyday.
On the ground work every dayand lifting that up, I think,
(07:55):
and trying to build our abilityto use the sort of spaceship
that we've created here and tryand help as many people as
possible.
You know, lift off in ways thatthey can for their Everybody's
going to have a war that'scoming up, so you know we're
going to have to band togetherto help each other fight those.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head.
I mean, I think, having thisplatform to help unify, connect
and really elevate the artiststhat we've been, you know,
trying to do, but on a biggerscale, on this international
level, because we're starting tosee how everything is
interwoven and we're going tosee it even more, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You're pulling out of the climate accord.
There's all kinds of things.
It's another pandemic, it's aglobal thing and yet at the same
time, we have this giantnationalistic, very states'
right movement going on rightnow with complete and total
control of government and themilitary and the Supreme Court.
(08:57):
So it's one of those thingswhere you know we don't know
what this looks like, but we'regoing to need each other.
And you know, for those of youraudience that don't know me, I
come come from a musicbackground, a very fortunate to
tour all over the world and andreally people reach out to me
all the time on dms from allover the world, kind of asking
you know how, how this is going?
Especially, we have easterneuropean friends that are
(09:19):
hitting me up because they havetheir own problems that are
going to get opened up from this, because it is a global
situation.
If, uh, you know, if he pullsout of nato and if he pulls out
of NATO and if he pulls out ofabandoned Ukraine and so all
these things.
So we'll see.
There's always the talk andthen we'll see what is real, but
(09:39):
there's going to be a lot ofchaos and a lot of distraction,
a la Elon Musk with his fuckingTwitter platform, $30 billion to
buy the United Statesgovernment.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I mean it was a good investment for him.
That's a hell of a deal.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Back up your truck to the US Treasury man.
It's insane, anyway.
So let's move on to somethingthat I am looking so forward to,
because when I was a kid,boxing you know boxing it wasn't
I was big into boxing, but Iwas big into Nintendo, and in
Nintendo, iron, mike Tyson rightwas that game?
(10:15):
Tyson's Knockout and I learnedwhat his uppercut was like will
knock you into the nextdimension.
And the fact that it's sort ofYouTuber Jake Paul versus Mike
Tyson coming up this weekendfree on Netflix, I'm excited
yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I mean I'm super excited.
It's always tough for mebecause I'm such a nonviolent.
A hymns of a little soul.
I mean to my core, even whenit's sport, even when it's I
just it's hard for me to watchviolence.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
But if you're going to knock the fuck out of
somebody, if you're going toknock the no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
But I you know.
I grew up with the Mike Tysonname.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
You know it was in my world.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So I think I just I'm intrigued, I want to see if you
know he can, you know, makethis comeback and kick this
guy's butt?
I also really don't love peoplethat are cocky.
If he did get his ass kicked, Iprobably wouldn't be mad about
(11:20):
it.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You see Tyson in the gym.
He looks scary as he is, he isscary as F.
I'm like, yeah, so I can't, Ican't wait.
But, um, you know, one of theone of the cool things is, uh,
we have a new segment here thatwe're calling pause for progress
, and this falls right into itbecause our um, I didn't know
(11:42):
this, you brought this to myattention, but I saw on the sort
of documentary on on netflixabout tyson and his pigeons.
Yes, and you were like no, no,no, no, no, no, no, no.
Dude, did you know?
And I was like I did not.
So the floor.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Asian akia yeah, I, you know it now.
It just struck me because I waswatching it on netflix as well
I was like all right, let me,you know, check this documentary
.
And I was interested.
And then all of a sudden hesays these pigeons are my life.
And I was like what, who knew?
So it was really sweet.
And then I started kind oftaking a deeper dive.
(12:17):
And then I find out, you know,his first fight, you know, when
he was growing up, was becauseof some bully kid.
That I mean very horrible,horrifying situation like ripped
the head off of him.
I mean, I don't even want totalk about it.
But yeah, that was his firstfight.
Was, you know, standing up foranimals?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
That's where he got the rage from.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, it's like to know where someone's story comes
from, and from a seeminglyinsignificant animal, you know.
And then I just went on thiscrazy deep dive.
I mean, I've always been inlove with pigeons.
I've rescued quite a few.
I've always felt for thembecause, you know, maybe not
everyone knows, but they are adomesticated bird that now have
(12:59):
to live out in the world.
You know, they don't reallyhave food source.
That's why we always find themby garbage and they're always
picking up things, but that'sbecause they don't have access
to seed and grain.
You know, these aredomesticated animals that now
are like stray cats.
They need to be taken care of,but it's just, the numbers are
too big.
There's no way we can kind ofhone in on that.
(13:20):
Just to lean into some of thecool things about pigeons Hell
yeah, hell yeah For progress.
Yeah, I mean I went on a deepdive.
I mean, did you know thatpigeons can detect cancer?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I did not know that Pigeons can detect cancer.
Correct, wow, okay.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And they also can detect volcanic eruptions.
What yeah, they're like littleweathermen.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
We don't give them enough credit.
Weathermen without shouldersyeah, no shoulders.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
But have you seen those TikTok videos where they
put arms on?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
birds On pigeons.
Oh my God.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's the greatest thing ever.
And then they'll put it to likemusic.
And yeah, if you know what I'mtalking about, you know what I'm
talking about.
It's the greatest TikTok videosI think I've ever seen.
But yeah, I mean just to goback, you know.
I mean these were like warcourier pigeons.
I mean they were trained todeliver messages and they've
(14:16):
saved lives, you know it'sincredible.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Like one pigeon that you put in, this is great.
One pigeon, GI Joe, savedBritish troops from a bombing
with five minutes to spare.
Another, by the name of CherCher Ami, delivered a total of
12 important messages for the USmilitary during World War.
I oh gee.
I mean total badass birds.
On his last mission, cher Amiwas shot in the breast and still
(14:41):
managed to fly another 25minutes, completing his mission
and saving the lives of 194stranded soldiers.
So yeah, don't knock yourpigeons man, they're doing good
work, that's right, otherwiseTyson will fuck you up, man.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Don't talk about my pigeons If.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Tyson does not have a foundation.
I've got an idea for him, Allright.
It's going to be for pigeonsand he can spread love and light
about pigeons, our littlefriends that we meet on the
sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's amazing, and so so should we be feeding
pigeons.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
We absolutely can feed pigeons, but we can't be
feeding them garbage bread trashhot dogs?
No, because the problem is thatthey're not getting the
nutrients that they really needfrom picking at garbage and
getting little pieces of bread.
So, to answer your question, yes, and you can feed them grains
and seeds.
But also it reminded me of atime that I was in New York City
(15:38):
and I came across a pigeon thatwas.
I wasn't really sure what waswrong with her.
She was just laying on her side.
I thought maybe she had runinto a window.
Sometimes they get this fog andit takes them like 20 minutes
to get back up.
But I ended up taking her to abird sanctuary in New York.
Was walking around Manhattantrying to figure out where to
take this bird, totally threw meoff Only Asian Akita, yeah.
(16:01):
And I just became, you know,close with this pigeon over the
next few days while I was tryingto figure out what to do with
her days, while I was trying tofigure out what to do with her
Um, and then when I finally gother to the sanctuary and they
did like all these tests to seewhat was going on, she had lead
poisoning and it just broke myheart and I was like the impacts
that we have.
(16:21):
And then she had this likelittle bumble foot too, from um.
A lot of pigeons end up with itbecause they get strings and,
um, human hair tied around theirlittle feet and it cuts off
circulation.
So yeah, she had this littlebumble foot and then lead
poisoning.
I'm like this poor little soul.
But she lived and was releasedback into lovely New York City.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I imagine you hit the lotto if you wind up in Tyson's
pigeon pen.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Absolutely.
I think it's a good plug.
We gotta figure out where thispigeon thing goes with tyson
yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, I'm rooting for the pigeons and I'm rooting for
the 58 year old man to uh yeah,just hopefully uh deliver a
knockout but let's see, so we'reboth rooting for him yeah, yeah
, all right all right, coming upafter the break we are going to
have our update on Rescue Storywith our sweet, sweet Cole who
(17:14):
needs a foster.
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Speaker 1 (17:49):
All right, before we go out of here, as promised,
we've got two scams and a slapcoming up, but also we have an
update on sweet little Cole,asian Ikea.
Tell us about Cole.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yes, so Cole is one of our rescues from Compton.
He was at the house with, sadly, the old man that had dementia
and the animals weren't beingfed Some days.
You know they were forgetting Avery sad situation.
But anyways, cole is doingabsolutely amazing.
But he is going to be in needof a foster this week.
So we're looking for some helpin the LA area for our sweet,
(18:20):
sweet little Cole.
He's got a broken little jawthat can't be fixed,
unfortunately, but he's fine, hedoes just fine with it.
And he's this shepherd.
But he's fine, he does justfine with it.
And he's this shepherdbeautiful blue-eye-looking
little baby and we've got tofind him a foster home.
Copy that Any help with thatfrom our listeners would be most
appreciated.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, All right.
So before we get out of here,two scams and a slap.
This world is batshit crazy,and so it's going gonna be hard
to tell.
I don't even know what's real,what's not, and so today I'm on
the block with you.
The good listener, Asia's gonnalay out three things, and we're
just gonna have to say whichone is a slap in the face and is
(19:00):
actually real.
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Alright, here we go.
First, one Robot dog saves afamily from a burning house Okay
, okay, okay.
Two a man breaks into a bank tomake a hot pocket in the
microwave.
Okay, and number threescientists create cloud-making
(19:24):
machine to combat droughts.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I love the robot dog.
I kind of there's a part of methat hopes that is true.
But I'm going to say the clouds.
Because the weather clouds?
Because I think the Saudis haveeven been playing with that for
a while, as the Chinese havetoo, I think.
Right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
So the true story is that the man broke into a bank
and microwaved hot pockets, ohshit.
And microwaved Hot Pockets ohmy God.
But you're not wrong Likesomebody.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Well, there are.
There is cloud technology.
It's really the Democrats thatcontrol the weather, correct.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
And we control Only when we win we control the
elections, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
But yeah, so when the police went in, it was just
funny.
But yeah, so when the policewent in, it was just funny.
They asked the man after youknow what was he thinking,
breaking into this bank tomicrowave Hot Pockets?
And he was just very matter offact about it, Like he didn't
have a place to microwave hisHot Pockets.
And they asked him if he wasworth it and he said hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
So I mean, there you go.
You ever had that ham andcheese Hot Pocket.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Hell, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Hot Pockets are great, yeah, soyou know, it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
All right.
Well, thank you guys, thelisteners, for indulging us
today.
It was a different kind ofepisode, and I think we, you
know, hopefully we're going topull together and, you know,
reach out online.
You know, continue to hit uswith questions, because we're
(20:52):
going to need each other'sguidance and light as we push
forward together.
There's a lot of people thatare also on our side that are
disenfranchised right now, thatneed to know that they belong to
a group as well.
Alright, and just a reminder,we've got some of our favorite
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(21:14):
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Speaker 2 (21:23):
Kind Sonics love action progress.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
See you guys next week.
Bye.
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I'm Rick Barrio-Dill.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And I'm Asia Nakia, that's right.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
On the show today.
You've heard a million takesand we're going to give you one
more the election recap and kindof a change of purpose here.
At Slap the Power, which isawesome, we hit our new animal
rescue segment, paws forProgress, where we get into
pigeons and Mike Tyson His firstfight was over a pigeon which I
(00:32):
did not know, and it's aproposwhat's coming up this weekend
with the Jake Paul-Tyson fightand a little later we get into
two scams and a slap where wetake three batshit crazy events,
two of which are fake but oneis real, and one of us, one of
the two of us, in real time,along with you, the listener
learns which one is true andwhich one is a slap in the face
(00:53):
of reality.
Okay, but first we were talkingabout this show format and it
just did not seem.
This is not a normal episode,did not seem.
This is not a normal episode.
You know this is post-electionand so we felt that it was very
important to kind of be as sortof open as possible, with us
(01:15):
having the Harris campaign nextdoor and stuff like that.
And so, first up, miss AsiaNakia, how do you feel after the
elections?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You know, I think when we left the office that
night I was just still sort ofin a state of shock.
And then the days followingwere a bit tough.
I just felt my body very heavy,you know, and I was struggling
to like get myself out of bedpretty much.
And since then, you know, I'vepicked myself up off the floor
(01:48):
literally and, you know, usingall of that energy and putting
it into this show and the goodthings we're doing.
You know that really I had toshift my mindset a bit because
it was a very sombering momentfor me, for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
There's a dissonance that is created, a cognitive
dissonance that is created.
That's asking 70 million of usto, you know, to accept
something that we know.
We have 10 years of evidence tobe true.
(02:47):
I'm encouraged because we haveso many Republicans from, you
know, the Cheneys to the insaneclown posse to you that somebody
being a racist, wanting to, youknow, kind of nationalize the
country.
We're gonna start to see thatmore and more and that's a tough
thing to swallow when we'relike, okay, racism wasn't a a
deal breaker, the you know, andnone of it was a deal breaker.
And that's what's.
I think.
For me it's like for a while Iwas like it was.
(03:09):
It's a tough hit, but again, ahundred times out of a hundred,
I, we, we, we go all in withwhat we got.
I think, like we said at thetop, there's there's a lot of
takes on this, but I think Joe,joe Biden obviously deserves his
share of the blame for kind of,you know, putting the country
and the Democratic Party andsuch in a situation like that.
(03:29):
But even if you put that aside,this is much, much, much bigger
than that.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I think back to like my grandma, and you know how we
were raised and the ethos thatwere instilled in us.
You know, at a young age andyou go through like this sort of
like top five list, you knowsort of like the, the, the, the
10 commandments, but you knowthe, the manner commandments
that we, that we live by, andthose were things like you know,
have manners, respect oneanother, respect women.
(03:59):
You know no cursing and, andyou know these things don't
break laws, don't kill people,don't you know no cursing?
And you know these things Don'tbreak laws, don't kill people,
don't you know?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And it's just Don't accept a $10 million bag of cash
from the.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Egyptians on day one, that's number nine.
Yeah, that was on there too.
I was taught not to do that.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, you can launder it through
crypto, because then they can'tcatch it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
So I think you know it's hard to wrap your head
around the most basic notions ofhumanity.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And the things that we thought were important and
the fact that all of thesepeople don't think those things
are important.
So, like the fact that we havesuch different ethos in this
country, I think is really hardto understand for most people,
because you'd like to think thatmost people are good and you'd
like to think that most peopleunderstand racism is wrong, that
(04:54):
you shouldn't steal, youshouldn't cheat, you shouldn't
lie.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
But it's.
You shouldn't be anti any groupof people.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You shouldn't be grabbing women by their you know
.
But the fact that that's okaywith everyone for very small,
like you know, economicimprovements that they have in
their head.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, well, inflation , when you can sell it as you
know the way it was and Iunderstand most people aren't,
you know they're not in it likewe are literally being 10 feet
away from you know a campaignthat was kind of, you know, had
100 days to get it together andreally compete in the seven
states which, by the way, shedid and if there was a memo that
(05:34):
was leaked and if indeed theyhad internal polling in the
Biden administration that he wasgoing to lose by 400 electoral
votes at a specific time, thenyou can look at what she did.
Is is incredible and you wonderwhat.
What might have happened if youknow Elon Musk wasn't spewing
lies and spewing his propaganda,because ultimately, that's the
(05:58):
toughest thing.
We're going to see the thingson television and they're going
to do it.
Cruelty for cruelty's sake,right?
We know it's coming.
We know the people that you canjust, and so most people didn't
sign up for that, right, and sothere's grace in that, and I
think most people are like yo,we want less.
You know immigration, and blah,blah, blah, but they're just
(06:20):
voting on, you know, okay, achange candidate, right, if
you're thinking that she wasn'tchanged, and I think that's kind
of the thing where we realized,you know, we had kind of taken,
I think, the show as far as wecould, with its sort of, it has
had very a national sort of lean.
Yeah, uh, shout out to my sykesfor and and because when it was
(06:42):
started it was a lot of thestuff was either local that we
were concentrating on or thingsthat were here in the us and and
.
So this is what's so great iswhat this has shown us and
allowed us to even have aclearer vision on what we can do
with.
The show is global and, youknow, animal-based, you know,
and animal-centric in a sense of.
(07:05):
We're still going to con, we'restill going to comment on
social context and progress, butthere's a purple lane here
where we're going to have tofigure how to, how to sort of
come together because, um, yeah,you know, it's like we don't
really know.
So it's like somebody can't say, well, we're going to be okay,
(07:25):
be okay.
What's the big deal, what's theworst that could happen?
It's like, yeah, we don't comeon.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Really, Really and so , unfortunately, yeah, we're
going to need each other andthat's why I think you do so
much on the ground work everyday.
On the ground work every dayand lifting that up, I think,
(07:55):
and trying to build our abilityto use the sort of spaceship
that we've created here and tryand help as many people as
possible.
You know, lift off in ways thatthey can for their Everybody's
going to have a war that'scoming up, so you know we're
going to have to band togetherto help each other fight those.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head.
I mean, I think, having thisplatform to help unify, connect
and really elevate the artiststhat we've been, you know,
trying to do, but on a biggerscale, on this international
level, because we're starting tosee how everything is
interwoven and we're going tosee it even more, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You're pulling out of the climate accord.
There's all kinds of things.
It's another pandemic, it's aglobal thing and yet at the same
time, we have this giantnationalistic, very states'
right movement going on rightnow with complete and total
control of government and themilitary and the Supreme Court.
(08:57):
So it's one of those thingswhere you know we don't know
what this looks like, but we'regoing to need each other.
And you know, for those of youraudience that don't know me, I
come come from a musicbackground, a very fortunate to
tour all over the world and andreally people reach out to me
all the time on dms from allover the world, kind of asking
you know how, how this is going?
Especially, we have easterneuropean friends that are
(09:19):
hitting me up because they havetheir own problems that are
going to get opened up from this, because it is a global
situation.
If, uh, you know, if he pullsout of nato and if he pulls out
of NATO and if he pulls out ofabandoned Ukraine and so all
these things.
So we'll see.
There's always the talk andthen we'll see what is real, but
(09:39):
there's going to be a lot ofchaos and a lot of distraction,
a la Elon Musk with his fuckingTwitter platform, $30 billion to
buy the United Statesgovernment.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I mean it was a good investment for him.
That's a hell of a deal.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Back up your truck to the US Treasury man.
It's insane, anyway.
So let's move on to somethingthat I am looking so forward to,
because when I was a kid,boxing you know boxing it wasn't
I was big into boxing, but Iwas big into Nintendo, and in
Nintendo, iron, mike Tyson rightwas that game?
(10:15):
Tyson's Knockout and I learnedwhat his uppercut was like will
knock you into the nextdimension.
And the fact that it's sort ofYouTuber Jake Paul versus Mike
Tyson coming up this weekendfree on Netflix, I'm excited
yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I mean I'm super excited.
It's always tough for mebecause I'm such a nonviolent.
A hymns of a little soul.
I mean to my core, even whenit's sport, even when it's I
just it's hard for me to watchviolence.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
But if you're going to knock the fuck out of
somebody, if you're going toknock the no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
But I you know.
I grew up with the Mike Tysonname.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
You know it was in my world.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So I think I just I'm intrigued, I want to see if you
know he can, you know, makethis comeback and kick this
guy's butt?
I also really don't love peoplethat are cocky.
If he did get his ass kicked, Iprobably wouldn't be mad about
(11:20):
it.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You see Tyson in the gym.
He looks scary as he is, he isscary as F.
I'm like, yeah, so I can't, Ican't wait.
But, um, you know, one of theone of the cool things is, uh,
we have a new segment here thatwe're calling pause for progress
, and this falls right into itbecause our um, I didn't know
(11:42):
this, you brought this to myattention, but I saw on the sort
of documentary on on netflixabout tyson and his pigeons.
Yes, and you were like no, no,no, no, no, no, no, no.
Dude, did you know?
And I was like I did not.
So the floor.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Asian akia yeah, I, you know it now.
It just struck me because I waswatching it on netflix as well
I was like all right, let me,you know, check this documentary
.
And I was interested.
And then all of a sudden hesays these pigeons are my life.
And I was like what, who knew?
So it was really sweet.
And then I started kind oftaking a deeper dive.
(12:17):
And then I find out, you know,his first fight, you know, when
he was growing up, was becauseof some bully kid.
That I mean very horrible,horrifying situation like ripped
the head off of him.
I mean, I don't even want totalk about it.
But yeah, that was his firstfight.
Was, you know, standing up foranimals?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
That's where he got the rage from.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, it's like to know where someone's story comes
from, and from a seeminglyinsignificant animal, you know.
And then I just went on thiscrazy deep dive.
I mean, I've always been inlove with pigeons.
I've rescued quite a few.
I've always felt for thembecause, you know, maybe not
everyone knows, but they are adomesticated bird that now have
(12:59):
to live out in the world.
You know, they don't reallyhave food source.
That's why we always find themby garbage and they're always
picking up things, but that'sbecause they don't have access
to seed and grain.
You know, these aredomesticated animals that now
are like stray cats.
They need to be taken care of,but it's just, the numbers are
too big.
There's no way we can kind ofhone in on that.
(13:20):
Just to lean into some of thecool things about pigeons Hell
yeah, hell yeah For progress.
Yeah, I mean I went on a deepdive.
I mean, did you know thatpigeons can detect cancer?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I did not know that Pigeons can detect cancer.
Correct, wow, okay.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And they also can detect volcanic eruptions.
What yeah, they're like littleweathermen.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
We don't give them enough credit.
Weathermen without shouldersyeah, no shoulders.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
But have you seen those TikTok videos where they
put arms on?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
birds On pigeons.
Oh my God.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's the greatest thing ever.
And then they'll put it to likemusic.
And yeah, if you know what I'mtalking about, you know what I'm
talking about.
It's the greatest TikTok videosI think I've ever seen.
But yeah, I mean just to goback, you know.
I mean these were like warcourier pigeons.
I mean they were trained todeliver messages and they've
(14:16):
saved lives, you know it'sincredible.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Like one pigeon that you put in, this is great.
One pigeon, GI Joe, savedBritish troops from a bombing
with five minutes to spare.
Another, by the name of CherCher Ami, delivered a total of
12 important messages for the USmilitary during World War.
I oh gee.
I mean total badass birds.
On his last mission, cher Amiwas shot in the breast and still
(14:41):
managed to fly another 25minutes, completing his mission
and saving the lives of 194stranded soldiers.
So yeah, don't knock yourpigeons man, they're doing good
work, that's right, otherwiseTyson will fuck you up, man.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Don't talk about my pigeons If.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Tyson does not have a foundation.
I've got an idea for him, Allright.
It's going to be for pigeonsand he can spread love and light
about pigeons, our littlefriends that we meet on the
sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's amazing, and so so should we be feeding
pigeons.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
We absolutely can feed pigeons, but we can't be
feeding them garbage bread trashhot dogs?
No, because the problem is thatthey're not getting the
nutrients that they really needfrom picking at garbage and
getting little pieces of bread.
So, to answer your question, yes, and you can feed them grains
and seeds.
But also it reminded me of atime that I was in New York City
(15:38):
and I came across a pigeon thatwas.
I wasn't really sure what waswrong with her.
She was just laying on her side.
I thought maybe she had runinto a window.
Sometimes they get this fog andit takes them like 20 minutes
to get back up.
But I ended up taking her to abird sanctuary in New York.
Was walking around Manhattantrying to figure out where to
take this bird, totally threw meoff Only Asian Akita, yeah.
(16:01):
And I just became, you know,close with this pigeon over the
next few days while I was tryingto figure out what to do with
her days, while I was trying tofigure out what to do with her
Um, and then when I finally gother to the sanctuary and they
did like all these tests to seewhat was going on, she had lead
poisoning and it just broke myheart and I was like the impacts
that we have.
(16:21):
And then she had this likelittle bumble foot too, from um.
A lot of pigeons end up with itbecause they get strings and,
um, human hair tied around theirlittle feet and it cuts off
circulation.
So yeah, she had this littlebumble foot and then lead
poisoning.
I'm like this poor little soul.
But she lived and was releasedback into lovely New York City.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I imagine you hit the lotto if you wind up in Tyson's
pigeon pen.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Absolutely.
I think it's a good plug.
We gotta figure out where thispigeon thing goes with tyson
yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, I'm rooting for the pigeons and I'm rooting for
the 58 year old man to uh yeah,just hopefully uh deliver a
knockout but let's see, so we'reboth rooting for him yeah, yeah
, all right all right, coming upafter the break we are going to
have our update on Rescue Storywith our sweet, sweet Cole who
(17:14):
needs a foster.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
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Speaker 1 (17:49):
All right, before we go out of here, as promised,
we've got two scams and a slapcoming up, but also we have an
update on sweet little Cole,asian Ikea.
Tell us about Cole.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yes, so Cole is one of our rescues from Compton.
He was at the house with, sadly, the old man that had dementia
and the animals weren't beingfed Some days.
You know they were forgetting Avery sad situation.
But anyways, cole is doingabsolutely amazing.
But he is going to be in needof a foster this week.
So we're looking for some helpin the LA area for our sweet,
(18:20):
sweet little Cole.
He's got a broken little jawthat can't be fixed,
unfortunately, but he's fine, hedoes just fine with it.
And he's this shepherd.
But he's fine, he does justfine with it.
And he's this shepherdbeautiful blue-eye-looking
little baby and we've got tofind him a foster home.
Copy that Any help with thatfrom our listeners would be most
appreciated.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, All right.
So before we get out of here,two scams and a slap.
This world is batshit crazy,and so it's going gonna be hard
to tell.
I don't even know what's real,what's not, and so today I'm on
the block with you.
The good listener, Asia's gonnalay out three things, and we're
just gonna have to say whichone is a slap in the face and is
(19:00):
actually real.
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Alright, here we go.
First, one Robot dog saves afamily from a burning house Okay
, okay, okay.
Two a man breaks into a bank tomake a hot pocket in the
microwave.
Okay, and number threescientists create cloud-making
(19:24):
machine to combat droughts.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I love the robot dog.
I kind of there's a part of methat hopes that is true.
But I'm going to say the clouds.
Because the weather clouds?
Because I think the Saudis haveeven been playing with that for
a while, as the Chinese havetoo, I think.
Right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
So the true story is that the man broke into a bank
and microwaved hot pockets, ohshit.
And microwaved Hot Pockets ohmy God.
But you're not wrong Likesomebody.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Well, there are.
There is cloud technology.
It's really the Democrats thatcontrol the weather, correct.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
And we control Only when we win we control the
elections, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
But yeah, so when the police went in, it was just
funny.
But yeah, so when the policewent in, it was just funny.
They asked the man after youknow what was he thinking,
breaking into this bank tomicrowave Hot Pockets?
And he was just very matter offact about it, Like he didn't
have a place to microwave hisHot Pockets.
And they asked him if he wasworth it and he said hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
So I mean, there you go.
You ever had that ham andcheese Hot Pocket.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Hell, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Hot Pockets are great, yeah, soyou know, it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
All right.
Well, thank you guys, thelisteners, for indulging us
today.
It was a different kind ofepisode, and I think we, you
know, hopefully we're going topull together and, you know,
reach out online.
You know, continue to hit uswith questions, because we're
(20:52):
going to need each other'sguidance and light as we push
forward together.
There's a lot of people thatare also on our side that are
disenfranchised right now, thatneed to know that they belong to
a group as well.
Alright, and just a reminder,we've got some of our favorite
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(21:14):
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Speaker 2 (21:23):
Kind Sonics love action progress.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
See you guys next week.
Bye.
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