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is Ethically Ambiguous today. You

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probably guessed by the title. It's a Q and

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A episode. Whoo.

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Yeah, we answer some of your questions. We have

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a lot of fun. You get to learn some stuff

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about us, do some little catching up at

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the top about the election. We're recording this

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on November five. We go down a dark

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path. Man. Things

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happened in this episode. You're not ready

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for men? Yes, stay

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tune. What does that mean? I don't know? Boy?

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Who are we? Where

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did he come? Who do we

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become? What is it

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to be? What to be?

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Is it? There are

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more parents? Why

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are all my pains? Why

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are we born? We

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are ethnically

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ambiguous? Hey,

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Hi, I

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love a classic good intro.

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Yeah, Zack just adjusted my Mike because

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I've learned in the pandemic

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that I have horrible Mike etiquette.

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Apparently I also think I have

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horrible Mike etiquette. I don't have someone

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too, But

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I know I have to like really

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like because my mic is to my computer.

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It's like a separate entity, right, so I just have to like

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talk to my mike and not to my computer. Just

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this is no one cares. You should consider getting

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one of these like crane handles things.

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So so Daniel d J Daniel did

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offer me that option right when

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when when he first gave me the setup,

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even though I had a zoom, but he gave me like the

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rest of it, and I declined

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because I was like, oh, this is this. It's more portable,

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it's easier, and it is pretty portable and easy.

2:03

But um but I

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don't know. Maybe I'll get a crane soon.

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I don't know if they're called cranes, but I just thought would be

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funny I called it a crane. But yeah,

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I do. I will say they're more convenient because you can't

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angle them right in front of where you need them

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to be. Yeah, for like for this,

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you mean, like no one's seeing our video, but you and I bet

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people are riveted this tech.

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This is called tech corner. Yeah,

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but we're on a you

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got like one of those big flat

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mm hmm. Yeah, holders

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it's not bad it's not bad. It's just like

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trying to coordinate looking at the

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guests and or you or me, which

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is I mean, to be honest, I'm usually looking at myself,

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yeah, and then the mike in front of me. It doesn't matter who

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cares. We were recording this on Thursday,

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the fifth of November, which means we are right

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in the middle of election week on

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Utah, Arizona. No

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not you taught Nevada Nevada? Sorry

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why I say you've done Nevada? Um.

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And there's a lot of funny Nevada memes out

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there of like Nevada after counting

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one quote, or like how Nevada counts

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their ballots, and it's just, I don't know, funny

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funny stuff you see did you see or

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were you when that posted? The Tyra one? Yeah,

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the Tyra one and the Luther van Dross

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one where he's like and then her

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like, I can't

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even it's so funny. Also that

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scene that I posted of Tira from America's Next

3:30

Top Model where she's like, all of a sudden, very light

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headed, and then she's dramatically

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right, I don't remember. I think I remember

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being an act. Is that what it was? What

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was she like, I'm acting or something like. Yeah.

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I just think then the challenge becomes like

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acting or something like that. Yeah,

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yeah, her fault was like,

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what's so traumatic? It was

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really funny funny. Oh yeah,

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that just got me good. I mean, classic

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show of our youth. I remember that season

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so well, Jade, Oh my god, I

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remember every day. I

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think one of the best. Yeah, she was on

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that couch watching Tyra have

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a moment. But

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yeah, we were waiting on Nevada, were waiting

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on Arizona, Georgia,

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UM, Pennsylvania UM.

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And by the time this comes out, everyone

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would already have heard my predictions of the future.

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So and I still think it's accurate.

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I still think Biden will pull through.

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I think we're just gonna have to accept that there's

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no election day. It's election week, you

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know. I think I think if we accept that

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moving forward, it won't be distressful

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because we'll know it takes time. But

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I don't know election year is

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really election year. The

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ship might go down election

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month, yeah, at the very least

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month. I guess. I'm glad it was

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predicted so early, like how things

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would go down, because that gave me a sense

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of peace through most of this week of like one

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being like it's gonna go towards

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Trump, but there will be more votes

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to council. Do not let that get you down. He

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will declare victory. It will

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not be real. Just hold

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and sit tight and the good thing

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my dad made me feel better. He's like, well, if he tries

5:15

to take it to like Supreme courts and like

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you know, like get like Amy Coney Barrett to like overturned,

5:21

like basically just do some plane fuccory to steal

5:23

this election. You know, he thinks

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the Supreme Court has enough sense to basically

5:28

not start a civil war. I

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mean, it's really unfortunate

5:33

that we can't just be hopeful with

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a blue wind without being terrified

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of all the red powers that be, which is

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like the Senate of the Supreme Court. I

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don't have faith in the Supreme Court at this point. I

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think they're all But

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do you think some of them might be realistic enough

5:48

to be like, oh, like, people will burn

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this country to the ground if you allow

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this sort of fight. I really hope so like I

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really hope that they have a

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little bit of sense left, um,

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because that is what the Barrett has any

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sense in that dumb brain of hers. I think she's

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completely useless. I do think if

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they allow fuckory, like, we

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will have to and I hate to say this on

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a place where my voice is recorded,

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burn it all the fuck down.

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Isn't that crazy? Like we would have to show

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us exactly who we're dealing with. We would

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let go. You have to let go of everything and

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realize this system does not work. White

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supremacy is rampant. Racism is

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rampant. And now the people who are supposed

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to be in charge of this country, even if it's

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right or not, have turned

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their back on your

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rights, and you're like civility

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and your humanity, and then now you have to

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be like, well this no longer

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stand. This gotta go, Like

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we would have to, like I hate

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to say, but we have to burn down our goddamn skin

6:51

routines. I don't year,

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and it has to get burned the funk down and

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build back up so it quality

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for all.

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Um. I think

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that sliver of hope you have, I

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want to have it too, but I

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have just no faith, Like even okay, even

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if the best case scenario still kind

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of sucks to me, Like like even if

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all three branches of government weren't read

7:18

like not. I mean, that's not that's

7:20

not accurate at all. I mean I'm talking about like the

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House, the Senate, and the and the Court,

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even if they weren't all red and Biden

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became president. I just have there's

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so much work to be done. Even if the Court

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was like swallowed up by a monster, it doesn't

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matter. Like there's still so much work that has

7:35

to be done. And like there there's like a lot

7:38

of stuff that happened that was amazing this week.

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L a proposition Jay was like

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in a great accomplishment uh

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Nifia Rahman one, which was another

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great accomplishment. A lot of queer

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people of color galected into the Senate and into

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Congress, which is amazing, our

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first trans Yeah, amazing,

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that's cool. That's that's a crazy thing.

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And there are a lot of queer people of color that got

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elected in various counties. We posted about

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it on our stories. Maybe eventually

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I'll make a whole thing about it, because

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I think it's worth noting the progress are making.

8:12

But then juxtaposing that with like Louisiana

8:15

banning abortion is really disheartening

8:17

because you think we're taking steps

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forward, and then you realize

8:22

that there's so much other work that

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is never finished. Yeah, Biden may

8:27

win, but it's hey, guess what, Biden

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is not your progressively

8:34

it's not your progressive prince. Yeah,

8:36

we still got so much work to do.

8:39

Yeah anything, I'm really I

8:41

mean, I know this is like people are

8:43

probably tired of hearing Bernie lovers

8:46

miss Bernie, but I really miss Bernie. He predicted

8:48

this whole fucking thing. I really want to live

8:50

in the Bernie timeline. But this is

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what we've got. So oh

8:57

and mushrooms, and Oregon became

8:59

the first state to do criminalize

9:01

possession of drugs across the board

9:03

and to legalize the use of mushrooms

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like as far as like medical purposes

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goes, which is amazing. I'm I'm

9:11

a huge proponent and like advocate

9:13

of using psychedelics to

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help with like treatment resistant depression

9:18

and other mental stuff. So I'm really excited

9:20

about that. DC did the same thing with mushrooms.

9:22

A lot of states legalize marijuana for

9:24

the first to like ever, I know, it's

9:26

wild weed. It's gonna when we can

9:28

travel again, it's gonna be

9:30

fun to like go to different states, like smoke

9:32

their weed. I mean most of it will come

9:34

from California. By it'll

9:36

be fun now you know you

9:39

can get weed anywhere. Yeah, it's

9:41

it's nice to look forward to. I remember, like four

9:43

years ago, I went to a wedding in Colorado,

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and I don't know if by that time weed

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was legal and in California maybe

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it wasn't. Because my mom that doesn't

9:52

matter if my dealis hear this, but my mom

9:54

requested that I get weed from for her from

9:57

Colorado because I was going there for a wedding. And

9:59

I was like, like, I can get

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it somewhere else in California, Like I don't need

10:03

to go out of like you know what I mean. But it

10:05

was just really cute, and so I think, like,

10:07

and now my mom uses gummy

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sometimes like to help her relax and go to sleep,

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and normalizing it is a

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huge deal to make it more accessible,

10:16

to make to help people with their to

10:18

just live live a happier, more relaxed

10:20

life. Like that's the least that they can have.

10:23

That's the least we can do for people. But

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yeah, hey, more

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people chilly, more

10:32

people chill. Yeah, you're more

10:35

people chill in one Yeah,

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baby, that's my campaign

10:39

slogan that's a that's a pretty good one. I'm

10:42

on board, which is really strange to

10:44

think about coming to an end. This

10:46

year has been a board to

10:48

say, the last four years people were honestly

10:50

such a great year. You're

10:54

kidding x mesh,

10:58

that was my boar at oh I

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watched for it, by the way, I finally you like it.

11:02

Yeah, it was pretty good. I Sasha

11:06

Baron Cohen's ability to

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make fun of this country in a way that only

11:11

he's really able to, you know what I mean, Like an

11:13

Arab wouldn't be able to do this that movie,

11:16

Like you know what I mean? Like any

11:18

I just think he's in a very specific

11:21

tear of celebrity and

11:23

like stature to be able to pull that off

11:26

without being like, I don't know, you

11:28

know what I mean? Does that that make sense? Like I think,

11:30

like only he can make that movie,

11:33

and I think it was funny. I mean I'm

11:35

shocked that no, like you okay,

11:37

like even This is America has come out his

11:39

TV show on Showtime. How do you

11:42

not look at like a six ft

11:44

something guy in a costume and not be like,

11:46

okay, that is bore at right? Like

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think it's crazy to me, like you can

11:51

get like America does not give

11:53

a funk, Like they're like sure, dude, whatever,

11:55

Like they just don't give a funk, And

11:57

you're like, what, how is

12:00

this happening? Like how is he able

12:02

to make up Borat two? That's

12:05

wild to me? It really blew my mind,

12:07

and like I think I was. I saw

12:09

it in the beginning of the movie. You see some people being like

12:11

Borat, like they're like they're

12:13

yelling in the street, but for the most part,

12:16

no one really no, like

12:19

like it's just and maybe left

12:21

time has passed or people forgot about Bora, but

12:23

like I feel like I don't know, I feel

12:25

the same way. It's almost like those like animals

12:28

or like cartoons where people have like a secret identity

12:31

but they look exactly the same, Like Sailor Moon looks

12:33

exactly like Sailor Moon when she's not Sailor

12:35

Moon, but for whatever reason, people don't

12:37

see it's her.

12:40

This is fucking real life, for

12:43

a life that these people have no fucking

12:45

clue what's going on around them. Do

12:47

you see my cat fucking with my ship? Trim?

12:51

Oh, I love Trim.

12:54

This is my life is telling fucking animals

12:56

to get off my belongings. I

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will say I did go to San Diego purposely

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for election time because

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if it went bad, I at the very least wanted

13:06

a cat to be on my lap to hold,

13:09

and it's been very nice. I think I'm going to get

13:11

a cat. Cats. Let me

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tell you. I've been telling you this for years. I know every

13:16

every single person that knows me is like, why

13:18

do you have a cat? And

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I think it's time. I think,

13:22

you know, also easy travel, throw

13:24

them in their crazy back and forth, you know,

13:26

just be careful introducing your cats to begin

13:29

with, and then boom shaka, looka you got cute?

13:31

Ask photos of cat

13:33

each adult. I think I'm going to I'm

13:36

leaning towards I mean, either

13:38

way, I'm going to go to a shelter, but I'm leaning towards

13:40

getting like an adult cat, just because those

13:42

never get scooped up as much as like younger

13:44

kittens. And I

13:46

just I think I want to take care of a not

13:49

a grandma, but like like like a lady

13:52

or even like a dude. It doesn't matter what the gender

13:54

is at the cat. But like I feel

13:56

for all the adult cats

13:58

that don't get claimed are taken because

14:01

people just want like cute little kittens and I don't.

14:03

I'm not really like, I don't care about if they're

14:05

kittens or not. I just like cats. So I'm

14:07

thinking about it. But anyways,

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today is a day that we

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decided to do another Key and A episode because

14:16

last time was it

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was a pretty fun episode. I didn't

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realize some of people would submit questions. We got even more

14:22

questions this time, so we're going to do

14:24

our best to try to zoom through them. And if

14:26

we don't get to your question this time, we'll save

14:29

it for next time. And I appreciate

14:31

the people that asked us like lighthearted questions

14:33

because I mean, why we both appreciate probably

14:35

like talking about heavy stuff.

14:38

I do appreciate the folks that

14:41

are I just want to know quirky

14:43

things about us. Um.

14:45

I want to give the preface that this morning I had

14:47

a migraine. I woke up with it. I couldn't really get

14:49

rid of it by taking iby profen

14:52

or zertech. No,

14:54

that's for allergies. What's the one I took?

14:56

This one? The one that period?

14:59

No, no ship, what is that called? Etcetera.

15:03

In there we go, same same concept. Nothing

15:05

worked for this, God damn migraine. So I

15:08

had to smoke some weight. So I am stony bologny.

15:11

So it's fine. Drugs are great

15:14

and I already grant

15:16

a lot. See, drugs can help

15:18

people if if they're legitimized

15:20

and accessible to people. Yeah,

15:24

anyways, that's beside the point. Let's

15:26

just start with some question more people chilling.

15:29

Yeah, so if Anna's loopy

15:32

and stony, that's answering

15:34

the question you asked. But

15:37

I mean, I'll try our best to

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answer as much as we can. Yeah, yeah, we'll be

15:42

fine. So there are three questions

15:44

we actually didn't get to last time because

15:47

the window of a question asking overlap

15:49

with our recording. But I'm going to start

15:51

with my cousin's horror l gen

15:53

D. She lives in Germany. Um,

15:56

she said needed a question to us on Facebook last

15:58

time that we didn't get to. Also,

16:00

Zohaj, I love you so much. I

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miss you so much, shout out. But

16:04

her question is what do you do for relaxation?

16:07

Maybe like a hobby smoke weed?

16:10

Yeah, I mean smoke weed. I got animal

16:12

crossing finally, so I play a lot of animal

16:14

crossing. I'm trying to you know, flip turnips.

16:17

Yeah, that good stuff. Um. Yeah,

16:19

I actually when I meant when I said

16:22

smoke weed, that was me answering for

16:24

for you, because I don't really smoke weed that much.

16:27

I do enjoy it, but I

16:29

don't have I'm not like the most.

16:32

I just I don't trust my brain to do spiral

16:35

so to relax, I like doing

16:38

yoga when I can. I love going on walks

16:40

and like like any type of nature

16:42

that I can find, and micro

16:45

docing really helps me. So

16:48

I guess I shouldn't say micro dosing because

16:50

my hobby though I guess the hobby is like hiking

16:53

and yoga and stuff. And also there's

16:55

no understating how nice

16:57

it is to have like a pet give you some love

17:00

an attention like that really makes me calm.

17:02

The cat at my parents house, like just having it like nuzzle

17:05

me just makes me feel so nice and

17:08

like it sleeps next to me when I sleep, and I don't

17:10

know I like animals. So

17:13

that's that question. Thank you so hard for asking

17:15

it. Um. Next question

17:18

from last time is from Instagram

17:20

from Maya. Her handle

17:22

is m ai A y

17:25

So's. Her name is probably like

17:27

Maya and that her last sans why anyways, what's

17:29

the best, worst, and most unique thing about

17:31

the cultures you've experienced? Mm

17:34

hmm about

17:37

our own cultures. I

17:39

don't know if I want to answer best or work means. I

17:42

feel like it's gonna be a long question if we really try

17:44

to tackle it. The worst part

17:47

of the culture is just for Iranians,

17:49

like the perceived behavior

17:51

and how things are analyzed

17:54

in the concept of Islam within the country,

17:56

and how people are treated and how

17:58

like Islam is kind of um weaponized

18:01

against people. I think that's the worst part. Best.

18:05

I mean, like there's so many good things. It's the food.

18:08

I mean that's not like super

18:10

I mean that's not unique, but no,

18:13

but I mean like it's really a huge part of

18:15

the culture. I think the vibes. I

18:17

would say the vibes like if you've ever been to like a fun

18:19

asked Persian MAHMONI, or the music's

18:21

popping and people are dancing like there's

18:23

no better vibe. People are so

18:25

happy and like you just see like older

18:28

people like dancing their

18:30

hearts out like you've never seen

18:32

them do anything that, Like you you would

18:34

never see them hiking a mountain. But a second like a

18:37

Iranian bop comes on there on the dance

18:39

floor with a tissue in one hand, like just fucking

18:42

literally dropping it. Like you would be like how

18:44

what like you can't like I can't drop

18:46

it like certain ways, like these older Persian

18:49

like when they hear it and they just start popping

18:51

off and you're like, that's sick, Like

18:54

that guy just dropped to the floor into like four

18:56

push or something. It's just like things like that where you're like,

18:58

what I mean, that's a very I would

19:01

I would argue that's the best and most unique

19:03

about that about Iranan culture.

19:05

Like I, as someone who's not Iranian,

19:07

I really love Iranian culture,

19:10

and I I think there's something really warm

19:12

about even like I mean you know this already

19:14

about me, but like I love that term June that you

19:16

call everyone, Like, I think there's something so warm

19:19

about the language. I just really

19:21

love it. But I would agree

19:23

that the worst part about the culture,

19:25

like Syrian and or Arab culture for me

19:28

is that perceived like violence

19:30

and or extremism that people have associated

19:33

with it. I'm not going to deny that, Like a lot

19:35

of Arab countries don't have the best leadership,

19:37

so that makes it hard for people to like think

19:40

differently than the stereotype. But

19:43

yeah, that's probably the worst for me is just trying

19:45

to just dealing with people

19:48

being ignorant and people not

19:50

understanding or religion not understanding

19:53

different cultures. It's not even just about

19:55

religion, it's about there's like a different way

19:57

of like modesty is a huge thing or

20:00

like I don't know, so that's

20:02

probably the worst. Best is similar

20:04

to yours. It's like, yeah,

20:06

it's like that that vibe of like like I really

20:09

loved being in Syria and just like drinking

20:11

tea on my on my grandparents balcony

20:14

and just those moments

20:16

where like food is a huge

20:18

part of it because like brings people together.

20:21

But yeah, the food, the rituals

20:24

that are associated with Arab culture mean

20:26

a lot to me. And just the

20:28

architecture is amazing. I don't know, I think

20:30

there are definitely I'm

20:33

just obsessed with Arab

20:35

culture. I think there's so much like Middle Eastern

20:37

culture is so rich. It's a it's

20:40

maybe like a cop out to say the food, but I think food

20:42

is a huge part of it. And just like the rituals

20:44

that are associated with Arab culture, whether it's like drinking

20:47

tea, like afternoon,

20:50

like these big feasts that you have in the Middle East where

20:52

it's like you you eat and then you take a nap, Like

20:54

it's just like it's I don't know if you guys

20:56

have that in Iran, but like it's very normal to

20:58

like eat like noon or

21:01

whatever and then take a nap until you're ready to

21:03

eat again. Like I think it's just like a really I

21:05

don't know. So there's that answer.

21:08

And the last

21:10

question before the break, Jamie

21:12

Lee m Lynch on Twitter asked us

21:15

last time, how are your family's living

21:17

overseas faring through these times?

21:20

I would argue, not great. Yeah,

21:23

yeah, I have the same response. My

21:26

family's in Iran so with sanctions,

21:29

coronavirus, just

21:31

overall bullshit, not great.

21:34

But I'm sure they're making the best of it. But not great.

21:37

Overall, not great, I'm gonna say not

21:40

yeah. Yeah. I

21:42

have still a good amount

21:44

of family in Syria. Also not

21:46

I mean, they're just it's just really hard to

21:48

be there right now. We try to

21:50

talk as much as we can. They're like, I mean, to

21:52

be honest, I get info for my mom a lot,

21:55

and I also have a lot of family that's like scattered everywhere.

21:57

So yeah, I think everyone's

21:59

just do their best. And it's

22:02

also on me to like make sure I check

22:04

in every once in a while. But when I'm really

22:06

depressed, I don't do that. So it's

22:08

a lot. But family is important

22:11

and taking care of each other.

22:13

Anyways, what a great time

22:15

to take a break. We're gonna take a qui commercial break. We'll

22:17

get we'll get right back and answer these new questions.

22:20

Got some fun ones in here, so they don't go anywhere, and

22:33

we're back. Okay. First

22:36

Twitter questions from Damien at

22:39

not Find. They asked,

22:41

I'm gonna say they

22:43

pronounced for the most part, just because I don't want to assume.

22:45

But they asked long time first time. Are

22:47

we okay? No, Damien,

22:50

I'm not okay. Are

22:52

we the collective whole? Okay?

22:55

I would argue, not great.

22:57

It's gonna be everything not great. We

23:00

are not great. Yeah, I'm bad,

23:02

more unhinged than ever. Um,

23:05

but yeah, next question, but thank

23:07

you for asking that. We're joking. We

23:10

appreciate the question. Um, but

23:12

we're okay. Objectively, we're okay.

23:15

I feel really grateful to be alive. We're

23:17

doing our best. Next questions from

23:20

black Tims at soft

23:22

Pom. They asked, was it intentional

23:25

that your podcast started having guests oriented

23:27

towards art slash entertainment. I

23:30

think that's just the industry we're in. Yeah,

23:33

when it comes to the two of us, I think we were lucky

23:35

that you have a background in booking comedy

23:37

shows. So a lot of your contacts

23:40

from booking comedy shows just ended up

23:42

being like friends, and you have

23:44

a good rolodex of people that you can

23:46

go to and they just so happened to

23:48

be in arts and entertainment. But also, yeah, it's the

23:50

industries that were both in, So the people that we meet

23:53

are usually in the same industry, and

23:55

I think, at least in my case,

23:57

I'd like hearing people like their stories

24:00

of the industry. But at the same time, I

24:02

appreciate when we have someone on that isn't

24:04

in the industry, But it is kind of

24:06

I feel like when you're in the industry, you're easier to

24:08

get ahold of That makes sense, Like if you're

24:10

just like an Arab doctor, for

24:13

example, unless you have like, unless

24:15

you're like an influencer, I'm

24:17

not going to like think of having you

24:20

on the It won't cross my mind. Does

24:22

that make sense? Like it's not, it's

24:24

I don't know, but I think, yeah, I'd

24:26

like to expand the circle. I think

24:28

we've had a good amount of people on that weren't necessarily

24:30

like an entertainment, like

24:33

I think we I'd love to bring on more politicians and

24:36

community leaders and stuff. Yeah, which

24:38

we try when we can, you know, like Nitia

24:41

or Fatima like I yeah,

24:43

it's a process. It's

24:45

not great, and I'm just choking that one. I

24:48

mean, I still I you know, I

24:50

bring on people who interest

24:52

me, I think is the case. And I love comedy,

24:54

I love film, I love

24:58

entertainment. I'm a big entertainment yll.

25:00

I love to sit on my couch and take an entertainment.

25:03

I'd like to be on my phone scrolling

25:05

entertained. We like to

25:07

be entertained. Yeah, so I

25:09

would like to bring on people who entertain

25:12

me. Yeah. No, but yeah,

25:14

and or Anna is right? Is

25:16

that, like we just bring on people that we like and that we want

25:18

to and if we don't know them, if I don't know them personally.

25:20

I like getting to know people like on the show and

25:23

expanding my circle and stuff. So yeah,

25:26

there's that question, next question. I'm

25:28

going to mispronounce this um

25:30

the question, but the name is suar

25:33

off med At Suars

25:35

Sea Walker, they ask what are

25:37

each of your favorite set us scenes?

25:40

I have no how to pronounce that word. I should I should

25:42

have look this up beforehand. But the image the

25:44

gift that they posted was of orcas

25:47

so and I looked up what that means. It's like the

25:49

family of animals that are like Orca's

25:51

and dolphins and those types

25:53

of mammals. Can I see their mammals?

25:56

I don't know. I Katie Golden on the show Whales.

25:59

Whales are whales, yeah, whales,

26:01

yes, So it's like a whale, dolphin or porpoise.

26:04

I'm gonna say, hold on cetacean.

26:07

Okay, cetation that's

26:10

how you say that work. I heard that word. Sorry,

26:12

that was my I was playing it on Google

26:15

citation cetacean. I

26:18

don't know if it's because you posted it, but I also think

26:20

if even if you hadn't, I would have landed on

26:22

this. But I do love orcas. I think they're

26:24

badass. I think they're beautiful,

26:27

They're so unique looking, they

26:29

are extremely intelligent, and

26:32

I despise Sea World

26:34

and I just want nothing more than to free all the Orcans.

26:37

So I'm gonna go with Orca's fair

26:40

a cetation, you know, maybe

26:42

a no, that's too

26:44

hacked to say, a narwhal, I'll say a beluga.

26:47

I like me, a little luga. Mm

26:49

hmmm, baby Beluga, I like

26:52

me some like Wabbi wabbies.

26:55

Yeahs like a little Wabbi wabby.

26:58

That's my nickname for Beluga. I was obsessed

27:00

with a song as a kid, Baby Beluga. I would

27:02

sing it all the time. Anyways,

27:05

they're cute. They're

27:07

like hiyahs

27:10

are pretty great too, though I like normal's. They're

27:12

like the unicorns of the ocean or

27:14

of the world. Are no unicorns, but they'll stab

27:16

you in the back by accident. They

27:18

need to do the lep see. Sorry,

27:21

this horn's all over the place. That's how imagine.

27:23

They're like kind of like Jerry Steinfeld.

27:25

Oh God. And

27:29

the question to characterize everything, yeah,

27:32

exactly. The next questions

27:34

from John c at Yonatan

27:37

underscore c can you ever accept

27:39

Israel as legitimate state? What a

27:42

question? Yeah, what a loaded question.

27:45

I mean, I will say this, it would really

27:47

depend on what they did.

27:51

It would have to be a lot. Yeah,

27:53

like if Israel, Like if Israel

27:55

recognize the lives of Palestinians, if

27:57

they let them live on the land that they

27:59

live on on Palestinian

28:02

land, Um, yeah, sure,

28:04

there would have to be many, many

28:06

changes and choice is made

28:09

to respect human life, to acknowledge

28:11

human life, and to admit

28:13

the damage they've done

28:15

and stop ethnic

28:17

cleansing. Yeah.

28:20

Sure, Like I think shortly, I think

28:22

the argument short answer, I would say

28:24

no my answer

28:27

if I could say

28:29

yes, if many, many,

28:31

many things happened to

28:33

correct what they've done thus

28:35

far, yeah, I think,

28:37

Um, there's a lot of work to be to

28:40

be done. I think the arguments also, like

28:43

not all countries are founded

28:45

in great ways, Like you could argue that the

28:47

United States is an illegitimate state, you know what I

28:49

mean, Like, and I would maybe agree with that because

28:52

we also ethnic cleansed. We I

28:54

don't want to say, I mean the United States States

28:57

was also part of a huge like ethnic cleansing

28:59

them of the native So I think there's

29:01

the argument there to move forward,

29:03

and I would I would agree with that. I think I

29:06

can recognize Israel exists,

29:09

but unless they

29:12

recognize that Palestinians also exists.

29:14

It's really hard for me to think of it

29:16

as a fair playing field, if that makes sense. So

29:19

it's not easy. You can't just yeah

29:22

and I do what you did and then

29:24

expect people to trust you exactly.

29:26

And the question is the question

29:29

was accepting Israel like, Yeah,

29:31

I accept that they exist. I accept

29:33

that this is the hand that we're dealt

29:35

now. But if they recognize

29:37

Palestine as a legitimate state, then yes,

29:40

I will recognize his reels a legitimate

29:42

state instead of them slowly

29:44

wiping Palestinians out. So there's

29:47

that next

29:49

question from Miguel at Black

29:52

Worm nine, what's your favorite traditional

29:54

dinner dish and dessert that you like to prepare

29:57

or that you like to have when you're feeling nostalgic.

30:00

Also was Sharine Day and Gemini asking

30:02

for her friend. That friend is me

30:04

sharene I'm a Gemini. Um

30:08

what I mean? Fest In John? I think I've made

30:10

it quite clear. Yeah,

30:13

fast and drawn his life. It's

30:16

delicious. I had it for the first time with you

30:18

at that restaurant. I forced it down your

30:20

throat, I held you down, I tied you up. Was

30:22

that the same day we had saffron ice cream? Yeah?

30:25

And that Yeah, ron

30:29

and rose water ice cream is so

30:32

good, so

30:36

yeah, I can't. Yeah,

30:39

I agree, they're both delicious.

30:42

Um. For me, I

30:44

really love cusa cousa. She actually

30:48

my mom made it vegan this time for me

30:50

when I came home. She made she use like fake

30:52

impossible meat instead of regular

30:54

meat. So basically kusa is like stuffed

30:57

cousa. Literally an Arabic means squash. So

31:00

there's this a dish that you you stuff

31:02

like hollowed out squash like

31:05

zucchini essentially, uh, and you put like

31:07

rice and meat and tomatoes in them, and

31:10

the broth that they're cooking in is like this

31:12

red broth. So you when

31:14

you're eating you have like the red soup like

31:16

a tomato like soup. You have the cool sot that you

31:18

like dip it in, and then you have the

31:20

insides of the zucchini that you've hollowed out

31:22

and you use that you eat that with bread. It's like, I

31:25

just love that dish so much. I also

31:27

love my fouf, which is like the

31:30

same concept with cabbage like

31:32

wraps. Hammada is

31:34

the best dip on the planet other than hummus,

31:37

like real hummus like from Syria. Is

31:39

the best hummus. But um Hammada

31:42

is like a red pepper pomegranate dip

31:44

with walnuts and jud

31:46

data, which is like a go to like

31:48

poor people meal because there's no meat in it. But

31:50

for me that I don't eat meat, it's just like lentils and rice.

31:53

And as far as dessert goes, I would

31:55

go with marmu or nomura. No

31:57

MoU is like these little aks

32:00

that have date paste in them as

32:03

I love them so so much, They're

32:05

so good. Dates are huge staple

32:07

in Middle East and desserts I feel

32:10

like, and the muda is like this

32:12

dessert. It's like an almond pastry

32:14

that you bake and it's really sweet

32:17

because they use um. It's not honey.

32:19

It's like syrup, like Arabic desserts

32:21

these a lot of syrup with like bok lava and stuff.

32:24

Yeah we got that too, Yeah, I

32:26

wonder what it's called, Like there's a different word for

32:28

it. Also, can I shout out

32:30

also fall, which is like an

32:32

Iranian ice cream which a lot

32:34

of people don't understand, but it's really good.

32:37

But it's basically like it's like thin

32:40

Vermicelli sized

32:42

noodles and they're like semi

32:44

frozen in syrup and it has sugar

32:47

rose water. Basically, it's sometimes

32:49

serves with served with pistachios.

32:51

It's ice cream. Well I guess technically it's

32:54

not ice cream, but it is ice cream. It's in irani and steals

32:56

ice cream. But it's really good. I really recommend

32:58

that. Sounds delicious. Oh sounds

33:00

so good. I'm getting hungry out. Okay, next question

33:03

from Cosmic Salmon. At Cosmic

33:05

Salmon, one mentioned that you've

33:07

been to Mexico. What dishes did you try

33:09

out and what did you think? Have you been

33:12

to Mexico or have I just been to Mexico. I

33:14

think you've just been. Okay, I've

33:17

so. I watched to Mexico for the first time. Last year.

33:19

Me and my friends went to Mexico City. I was.

33:21

I loved it so much. We went to like the pyramids

33:24

that are outside the city as well. I'm

33:26

going to butcher the name, so I'm not going to say

33:28

that city's name. But I was thinking about

33:30

this question and I think I landed

33:32

on I mean, like we had the

33:35

best like tacos and soapas

33:37

and all those two like things that are just

33:39

really good authentically from Mexico.

33:41

But the dish that I had never heard of before that I

33:43

had for the first time was I'm gonna

33:45

mispronounce this tea coyo

33:48

t l a c o. Y Oh. It's

33:51

like this oval shaped dish

33:53

like it's like it's like a masa slashed

33:55

corn. Put whatever topics you want

33:57

on there. And there was a place within walking distance

34:00

of the hotel who we're at you can like put whatever you

34:02

wanted on it, and it's so good, and

34:04

it was like warm and really vegan

34:07

and vegetarian friendly because you can just put beans

34:09

and whatever on it. So so yeah,

34:11

that was delicious, I think, and

34:13

all the food we had there was delicious, honestly,

34:16

but that's like the takeaway only because I had

34:18

never heard of it before and it was really yummy.

34:21

Next question at I

34:24

don't know Edith Puffy at

34:26

Tia Nara says,

34:28

if we elect Joe as president, how do you think

34:31

his response to COVID nineteen will change

34:33

from what it is now with

34:35

the little googly eyes emoj

34:39

I mean, I'm hoping he'll shut it the funk

34:41

down, like he'll shut down everything so

34:44

we can actually have some semblance

34:47

of slowing the virus down.

34:50

Yeah, like Germany, England

34:52

and France are going into lockdown

34:55

probably by the time this comes out there in lockdown

34:57

and um, but we should have

34:59

done that a long time ago and committed

35:01

to it other than like getting bored. So

35:04

I hope.

35:07

Yeah, it's like there's no economy if

35:10

everyone's dead. Bitch, sorry

35:15

apologize. That's very true because

35:17

the people that survived the economy opening

35:19

up are people that are rich enough to not go to

35:21

work and have

35:24

people go to work for them, or like, you know

35:26

what I mean, Yeah, we're what are you gonna do?

35:28

You know, you're gonna just stay

35:30

rich and the rich stay

35:33

healthy. I just like, I mean, I don't want to talk about

35:35

them by name, but a lot of celebrities

35:38

have been having birthday parties without

35:40

any masks on. But you see photos of them like

35:42

blowing out cake or say

35:45

our name Canda generates, I

35:47

mean, yo, Batch, how could you.

35:49

I just think they're all garbage, all the Kardashians,

35:52

all the generous everyone that's at the party. I

35:54

hate them all because you have this video

35:56

of her blowing out her stupid candles, which is already

35:58

disgusting. When you really think about up blowing out candles.

36:00

It's like your spits already on the cake, but the waiter

36:03

is like the only person the video with a mask

36:05

on, and he's like backing away from her. It's

36:07

just disgusting the the entitlement and

36:09

privilege of the very rich, because

36:12

even if they do get Corona, they

36:15

will be fine because, just like Trump,

36:17

they'll have the best treatments available. So

36:20

I hope back to the question.

36:22

Sorry, now I have to make myself beyond track to

36:25

back to the question. I hope that buy

36:27

In will take the

36:30

virus seriously, and I i'm

36:32

i'm I have faith that he'll win. And if

36:35

Trump wins, which I don't think will be

36:37

the case, he will fire Faucci.

36:39

So if Biden wins, I have faith that Fauci

36:41

will be fired and Biden will listen to

36:43

him rather than belittle him.

36:46

So b b the

36:48

next question I am very confused about. Do

36:51

you understand this question? What it

36:53

say? Okay, Sammy Callie at

36:55

Massage for pros and

36:58

maybe it's a bought doesn't follow

37:00

us. I don't know about Massage for prose. Have

37:05

you ever used a time bank our

37:07

World dot org? I might just be

37:09

like I might just be reading aloud a spam comment.

37:12

To be honest, if you do exist, Sammy,

37:14

I'm very sorry, but like I don't understand

37:17

this question. I also don't know what a

37:19

time bank is. Do you know what a time bank is? Okay,

37:21

I'm gonna what does time banking

37:23

mean. It's an it's a system

37:25

of bartering various services from one another

37:28

using labor time as a unit of account,

37:30

which was developed by various socialist

37:32

thinkers based on the labor of theory of value.

37:35

Time banking can be considered a form

37:37

of community currency. Oh

37:40

oh, so it's like okay, so it's like a

37:42

productivity thing or

37:44

not. I mean though, it's like a like a our

37:47

World dot organ see if I get an

37:53

I went and it looked really weird. I don't know.

37:55

Oh no, it's an an international network

37:57

of neighbors helping neighbors. Cool.

38:00

That actually looks great to

38:03

answer this question, Thanks for sharing

38:05

this, Sammy, Yeah, thanks for sharing it. Sorry

38:07

I thought you were a bot. It

38:10

had very bought vibes. But

38:13

I will say to answer your question, obviously,

38:15

no, I have never used to time bank, but

38:17

I'm very curious to learn more because

38:20

it does seem very good, right,

38:23

It seems like a very good way to take

38:26

advantage of the time we have. I mean, I need

38:28

to look for that. I'm not fully sure what it

38:30

is exactly. I need more deats. Yeah

38:32

again, sorry, Sammy, you're not a

38:34

massage for prose. Okay. Next question, dream

38:38

bills very own at Lobby Dotty

38:41

four asks how are your families

38:43

abroad seeing this dumpster fire called

38:45

America these days? I

38:49

mean, I mean that's great.

38:51

Yeah, I think he just thinks everyone

38:54

just thinks Trump is a joke, and like they

38:57

think America is a joke by association. So

39:00

that's what I would say for that question. I

39:02

remember when Trump was first election

39:05

elected and I was in Iron

39:07

everyone to be like, wow, how are you going to do with

39:09

that? And

39:11

a part of me I would

39:13

never actually say this because it's

39:15

sucked up, but I was gonna be like, how are

39:17

you gonna do with that Middle

39:20

Eastern country? But

39:23

that was very being a bitch because I

39:25

was mad and they're well, look, and I'm

39:28

like, yeah, a bitch, good luck to you too.

39:31

I hate to be that bitch, and that's really cruel and

39:33

they didn't deserve that. But that's just me being

39:35

a bit to my cousins. I mean,

39:37

yeah, they had it coming. Um,

39:41

I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I

39:43

remember, Yeah, I just I don't want

39:46

to want to be mean to you. That

39:48

was just my dumb cousins thinking they're so

39:50

funny the family abroad

39:52

that I talked to you about this, or

39:54

that my mom tells me like their opinions.

39:56

It's just we're just a joke. And when

39:59

Bush was president it and we visited Syria,

40:01

people just associate Americans with the

40:04

president, and people hated Bush in the Middle

40:06

East because he bought in the Middle East a lot. So

40:09

the associate America would like that. So

40:11

yeah, the next question is for you,

40:14

what is a technocultural studies major?

40:16

It's not it was the same for

40:19

you, but I know it's for you. Oh that's

40:21

Aaron. We went We were in the same major

40:23

erin I can see your fucking wait

40:26

really to see his name. That's air

40:28

Wise. I went to college with him.

40:30

He's a homie. Oh, I guess

40:33

I was college with him too. By yeah, you probably,

40:35

I mean maybe you knew. I don't know. But what

40:37

is a technic cultural studies major?

40:39

Aaron? You know? Damn well, none of us know what a

40:42

technic cultural studies major is. The

40:44

concept what that's what I One of my double

40:46

majors in college was Film Studies and Technicultural

40:49

Studies a k a. Good

40:51

luck. Uh. The

40:53

way they described to it's the intersection

40:56

of technology, our culture

40:59

and machine means. So basically

41:01

it's like anything any sort

41:04

of tech you could create art with, or any sort

41:06

of just tech in general, and like

41:08

how bodies and culture

41:11

work within art and tech.

41:14

And then also like machines can also be

41:17

like actual machines we

41:19

know as machines or like the machine

41:22

of like the human existence

41:24

in a way like culture

41:27

as well. Dude, this fucking ship.

41:29

Like I would go to class so high and be

41:31

like fuck yeah, man, like just think about

41:33

it, like I was. Everything

41:35

was just so like it was an acid

41:38

trip of a fucking major. I

41:40

literally, like I remember in one

41:42

class. Also, all the classes are named from

41:44

wild ass ship, like technicultural studies

41:46

are, like I need to

41:49

find some of the names of these classes, like Interconnecting

41:52

Mind and like it's just crazy ship

41:54

where you'll be like what, Like I took a class called

41:57

Experimental Video, Like I took

41:59

classes where I was taught how to make

42:01

experimental video art. Okay,

42:04

like maybe like whatever your mind goes. Man,

42:07

if you're like me,

42:10

I like the ship. I think this

42:12

is the only one that really had it though, right, Like

42:14

it's not it's not a it's not a widespread

42:17

major. No. We a also one of my

42:19

like more fun classes, even though it's like so

42:21

hardcore because the professor was just so intent

42:24

shout out Bob Boster tag intro

42:27

to sonic Arts. Basically, you just

42:29

make experimental sound art the whole time, and

42:31

then you learn to use like a mood and a book

42:34

clat like these like fucking

42:37

these interfaces that are just you know,

42:40

synthesizers, Like you train with

42:42

these things and like learn how to work

42:44

them into your sound art. And it

42:46

was just such a trip, Like you would be sent

42:48

out with like a contact mike you made yourself

42:51

to like collect sounds across

42:54

the campus and then come back and like edit

42:56

it all together. And it was

42:58

just like such a trip, and um,

43:01

well it was.

43:03

It was fucking madness. And I can't believe

43:05

someone gave me a degree for doing it.

43:09

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that answers

43:11

that question. Um commercial

43:13

break, really cool, commercial

43:16

break. We'll be right back. Try to fire through

43:18

these the rest of these questions, and

43:28

we're back. Okay. Our last question

43:31

from Twitter is from put

43:33

a Little in It for Equality at

43:36

ship. His handles cropped out. Damn it,

43:38

I'm sorry. They asked, can a brother get

43:40

a date with Sharne? No? Okay? Cool?

43:44

Do you think people will ever be able to view each

43:46

other as equals or do you think

43:48

one group will always consider themselves better

43:50

than another? I guess to answer the first part

43:52

and the Gemini question, which I didn't answer before.

43:55

Sure, I'll date a Gemini because I like

43:57

to suffer. Second,

44:00

I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I have no, I

44:03

don't, I don't. I don't think I should judge

44:06

based off of star signs. Will

44:08

I be on trusting at first? Sure? But

44:10

the next part of the question, do you think people will

44:12

ever be able to view each other as equals? Or do you think

44:14

one group will always consider themselves better

44:16

than another? I don't

44:19

think people will ever view each other as equals.

44:21

I think we are too inherently

44:25

used to competition

44:28

or like, uh yeah,

44:30

just competing with each other? Um, and

44:33

we're visual creatures that compare compares

44:36

things right away. Based off of the first

44:38

thing we see. So I

44:41

think equality is a

44:44

utopian idea,

44:46

but maybe I'm just a pessimist. No, I

44:48

can I agree with that. It's definitely I

44:51

feel like we're deeply conditioned to

44:53

accept colorism as the norm,

44:56

and it's hard to break free from those mindsets,

44:59

you know, Like it truly takes

45:01

conditioning to like it conditioned

45:03

us in a way that we would have to literally be like

45:06

almost truly like conditioned

45:08

out of it. Yeah, and it's a

45:10

lot of work and a lot of people, you know, their

45:13

best to not let these prejudices

45:15

seep in, but like I think they like, no

45:17

matter how perfect or progressive we think

45:19

they are, there's or that we are that like,

45:21

there's still moments of like we just

45:23

don't understand or we're getting something wrong,

45:26

because yeah we're not. I don't know profect

45:29

quality is is

45:31

ideal, but I think

45:33

we're a far far away from that, especially

45:36

now seeing how many people voted again for Trump, Like

45:38

they don't care their white supremacy matters

45:40

more, their power over people

45:42

of color matters more. So. Short

45:45

answer, I do hope one day,

45:48

uh, but it's a long long

45:50

time away, and we have so much work

45:52

to do and

45:54

I agree with that. Okay,

45:57

going to Instagram, trying to blaze

45:59

through these. Our first one isn't a

46:01

question, but it's from at I

46:04

a l H eight four, very

46:06

supportive listener. Thank you so much. They

46:08

just saying, God, I'm sure at questions, but how

46:11

are you such wonderful podcasters? Thank you for

46:13

the compliment. This is gonna be a quick one because I'm

46:15

gonna move right past along. But in my experience,

46:18

I'm just sad all the time. So I don't

46:20

know if I answer that question. But um,

46:22

do you have any to how we're wonderful

46:24

podcasters? No, no thoughts. I don't

46:26

consider myself anything except for a

46:29

few atoms. Yeah, we're

46:31

just doing our best at

46:33

Nadia Nadia shout out to you. She

46:36

asks if we have any new hobbies. Do

46:38

you have any new hobbies other than the

46:40

switch? Mm hmm other

46:43

than I

46:47

literally thinking like, do I have hobbies anymore?

46:50

No? I don't really have anything

46:52

new to report. I am,

46:55

oh, I am. It's not a hobby. But teaching

46:57

myself Spanish again, just do a lingo.

47:00

I did this for I'm doing. I did Russian

47:02

before I went to Russia four years ago, and now

47:04

I'm doing it again, so I'm

47:06

like, have like a two weeks shriek.

47:09

So I'm that's my new thing is

47:11

rushing up on my Spanish and trying to be better

47:13

at at Russian. Next

47:15

question, Yeah, it's something nice. It's

47:17

like like a reminder at least five minutes

47:20

a day makes me feel like I'm being productive.

47:22

Next question from a Glorious Beast asks

47:25

as POC and media, how

47:27

do you deal with microaggressions?

47:30

Oh my god, I had one today that I had to fucking

47:32

blow up at a proportion to make a point.

47:34

Um, well, how do you deal with it? I

47:37

make a fuss about it because I'm tired of people

47:39

like just speaking to you how they want, disregarding

47:42

like you do understand, like words

47:44

matter, actions matter, and what you say matters.

47:47

So if you're going to use certain language towards someone

47:49

and try and act like god nothing

47:51

to do with the gender, it doesn't matter. You did

47:53

it, You didn't, you know you did it. Basically

47:56

I was explaining something to someone and they were like,

47:58

all right, stop complaining. And

48:00

there was no complaints. It was literally just clarification

48:03

points I was making told

48:05

me and this was a man, an older white

48:07

man who told me to stop complaining, and that really upset

48:09

me in a way that I was like, you know what, bad

48:12

look on you to do that, because

48:14

one, it's at this point, like

48:16

I don't understand how you're not seeing saying that to a

48:18

female producer not

48:22

okay, just not okay, because also we're

48:24

in a work setting. It's not okay regardless

48:27

of what whatever miscommunication we

48:29

had where I'm trying to clarify, you don't

48:31

get to act like that and you don't get to say that, and

48:34

you might be there, it's no gender involved when

48:36

I call you out, but but you did. You

48:38

did it. You said that at an unnecessary

48:40

point in time, and

48:43

it became like even if you didn't mean that, that's

48:45

what it became because you chose

48:47

to say something like that, and it's like yeah,

48:50

and I sent it to a few other people

48:53

in higher ups being like just you know, like I'm

48:55

I will make a fuss about bullshit like this

48:57

because that's not okay and I'm tired

49:00

of it. So I'm just speaking up more

49:02

than ever to be like fuck off, just fuck

49:04

off. If you like, I will have to be too

49:06

much bitch if I have to to make a point

49:09

that you don't go around and do that to some other producer

49:11

you're working with because you're like thinking you

49:13

know better. It's like, that's not right.

49:17

Words matter, these things matter,

49:19

and you're setting precedents that you will talk

49:21

down to this person and that's just not okay.

49:23

This is a fucking work situation. I've worked

49:26

very hard in my life to get where I am,

49:28

and as a woman of color, I ain't here to

49:30

listen to some fucking white guy tell

49:32

me to stop complaining. It's like, especially

49:35

when there's no real complaints, like it's just facts.

49:38

The clarification was, that's that's

49:42

that's him. He's him being like, all right, calm

49:45

down, calm down, I get it. It's

49:47

like, but do you get

49:49

it? Like I That's why

49:51

I'm clarifying because I want to make sure this

49:53

miscommunication doesn't happen again

49:55

in the future, thus slowing down

49:57

our workflow. So sorry

50:00

to break to you, right,

50:02

and you can't do stuff like that, and I will call you ad

50:04

on it. And so that's how I deal with it by getting

50:07

very upset, and I think it's better.

50:10

I think it's better by addressing

50:12

it and making sure

50:14

that person knows that they misstepped in

50:17

a way. I think that's what we have

50:19

to do, and I try to do that too whenever

50:21

I can. Um if it's someone that I don't

50:23

know personally and or don't

50:26

have like a rapport with, if it's like I

50:28

I mean, like if it's someone like on the internet, sometimes

50:30

I might lash back, but for the

50:33

most part, I'm trying to conserve

50:35

my energy. So unless it's

50:37

something that like I don't know, but yeah, I

50:39

think addressing is the lee is the is

50:42

necessary. But also I know the

50:44

other side might have like a major

50:47

eye roll, which is really annoying. But

50:49

anyways, I hope that answers that question.

50:51

Okay, so next question is from

50:54

Junkie Paddle. Thank you for submitting

50:56

so many questions. We're not going to get through all

50:58

of them because we want to zip through some stuff.

51:01

She asks, who are your dream podcast

51:04

guest and or guests. I

51:06

feel like I have a lot. I would love

51:08

a partner on Turla. I

51:10

love I would love Seeway

51:14

if he had time too.

51:18

I would have Cardi bon if she wanted to do

51:20

it. Uh

51:23

yeah

51:26

yeah mahrshela Ali,

51:32

Yeah, why

51:34

not? I love

51:37

that. I mean every politician really

51:39

that I admire would be great like il Hahn and

51:41

Rashida and aoc

51:45

dream. But but yeah, those are the ones

51:47

that can get off top of my head. Next question

51:50

for also from Junkie Paddle, She asked, are

51:52

there any plans for an E a live show with

51:54

an audience and then zoom

51:56

or I r L post covid. I would totally

51:59

love that. Thank you for loving

52:01

that. We did have a live show,

52:03

our very first live show last

52:05

year in Chicago. It was really

52:07

fun. We should do like a twitch E a

52:10

COVID stream. I would be down.

52:12

I would be really I would be I'd

52:14

sign sign me up. Would you have people

52:17

like wait, people like submit questions,

52:19

would dream? I would

52:21

be down. Just do Okay

52:24

I hate you, I don't, but

52:27

yeah, I would love to do more live shows. We

52:30

I really enjoyed our last one, and

52:32

I think connecting with people in real life is really

52:34

especially people like that only know our voices

52:38

and we don't ever see our audience. So I

52:40

think it was nice seeing people face to face.

52:42

But now now with COVID, I think

52:45

a zoom or twitch would be

52:47

really fun. So maybe we can do that soon. Maybe

52:49

you can be like a holiday thing we do. What do you think? How

52:52

can I down for a holiday

52:55

ethnically ambiguous where we

52:57

me and you wear aprons and cook

53:00

dinner for everyone over

53:03

zoom Yeah. Yeah, and

53:05

I'll be like, and then I sprinkle a little

53:07

bit of time. Let

53:10

me take forever to two

53:13

to eighteen hours. It will take, yeah,

53:16

just block it out all the audiences to block out that

53:18

time for us. But no, really, I

53:20

think it's a great idea. So maybe we can do that,

53:22

hopefully soon. Okay. Next questions

53:24

from Katie Bondo. She says,

53:27

share three random facts listeners

53:29

don't know about you both. I don't know if

53:31

I can get to three, but I'll try to think of one.

53:34

Do you have anything that you can think about? Random

53:36

facts? Three?

53:39

Rondef stuff?

53:42

Um,

53:44

I don't know, because I feel like I've

53:47

done so many episodes of this that it's

53:49

hard to hide anything about me. That I'm

53:51

a fucking monster. Um oh that's

53:53

one. I'm a monster. I

53:57

guess this is very random, But I'm I drink

54:00

more water than anyone I've ever known. I

54:03

drink so much water that, like, I

54:05

drink maybe four to

54:07

five liters today, which

54:10

is a lot. I'm just always so thirsty, and I drink a lot

54:12

of water. I like to stay hydrated. So that's

54:14

a random fact, I suppose. Um,

54:17

I mean it's not random. We both are obsessed with skincare.

54:20

Um. I love shrooms. I don't know what else.

54:24

Here's a fact about Sharine. She's on our way

54:26

to Oregon right now. She's

54:29

a true addict. I

54:31

do love all that on my way to Oregon. Memes.

54:34

Yeah, same, there's this one of I

54:37

think I just sent it to you because I saw it. I'm sorry,

54:39

I'm looking at memes with someone sent it to me and I looked

54:41

at my phone like a fool, and it made me laugh.

54:43

But it says New Jersey weed is legal Oregon.

54:46

And then it's Chappelle as

54:48

the like crack addict

54:51

character well Tyrone,

54:54

yeah, yeah yeah, and he's like, it's like

54:56

Oregon. Then it shows him and he says peanut butter

54:58

and Craix, which I

55:01

don't know why getting

55:04

me. Uh,

55:06

that's something you might not know about me. I fucking

55:09

loves me. I loves memes. I

55:11

think memes are some of the funniest fucking

55:13

things, so much so that I exist

55:16

in a realm where basically like a

55:18

lot of my like humanly reactions

55:20

to things are based off of like

55:23

gifts or memes I've seen. So

55:25

I'll do like white guy blinking faces

55:27

people, or I'll do like that girl's like what the

55:30

fun with her hand out? Or like

55:32

the guy who has his fingers up to his head and

55:34

he's like think about it like

55:36

all my existence. It's

55:39

sad, but it's true. Is deeply

55:41

memified and giffified. I

55:44

mean generation, you're the voice

55:46

of our generation, Eric the mind

55:48

Explosion. Yeah yeah,

55:52

so what did you say? I'm the one of the generation,

55:55

the voice of regeneration. What did I say?

55:57

I don't know? Something of regeneration

55:59

is just there's a meme of our generation.

56:02

I'm a human walking meme. I have

56:04

such a meme of like my encyclopedic

56:07

like I have last things, like real

56:10

things I should know in my brain that

56:12

I have moved aside to

56:14

rememorize certain memes

56:17

like fucking nicky young face meme. I

56:19

do that all the time, Like

56:23

what that is?

56:25

That's fact? That is a fact. That so

56:27

yeah, that's my Maybe that's something you don't know about me. But

56:29

I'm sick. I'm deeply sick

56:32

because of the internet. The Internet

56:34

is ruined me. No, but

56:37

that's a good question, though. I think I'm gonna

56:39

try to think of more stuff that you guys maybe

56:41

don't know. Uh, y'all maybe don't

56:44

know. Um, that's a good one.

56:46

Next time, maybe we could end episodes

56:48

with a random fact that we're trying some thought.

56:50

He doesn't know anyways, Okay,

56:53

next question from Maha

56:55

Faruki. How are y'all

56:57

centering or trying to center

57:00

joy in your you and

57:02

your loved ones lives? I don't

57:04

know, just from maybe just like quality

57:06

time as much as I can, making sure

57:09

I reach out as

57:11

much as I can. I'm really lucky. I feel

57:13

really grateful that my parents are within driving distance,

57:16

so being safe obviously and

57:18

making sure I get a negative COVID tests, spending

57:20

time with them, appreciating

57:22

moments as much as I can, and

57:24

as far as I go. I've had

57:27

very I mean, everyone's had a really rough year, but my mental

57:29

health isn't doing so hot or hasn't been for a long

57:31

time. So just

57:33

trying to be nice to myself,

57:36

treat myself in little ways when I can,

57:39

and not be my worst enemy. There's

57:42

my answer. Yes, Okay,

57:46

what she said, Yeah, I

57:48

think it's pretty It's just it's we just have to

57:50

be nice to ourselves. And I think, um, it's really

57:52

easy to not be just you have to try

57:54

our best be the people that we need to be for

57:57

ourselves. Okay. Next question is

57:59

from S S three

58:01

S S. Sarrita

58:04

with two ages at the end. As people of color,

58:06

do you ever feel pressure to make only

58:08

projects, to only make projects about

58:10

identity? How do you navigate this? Yes,

58:13

queen, yep, we have a podcast

58:16

all of our identity. I would say,

58:18

yes, queen to that. How

58:20

do I navigate it by doing

58:23

this show? I've been like, can you fucking believe that?

58:26

By talking ship with Sharne. Mostly

58:29

yeah, I think, um, there's definitely

58:32

a pressure as a film like I

58:34

I think I avoided as a filmmaker even

58:36

addressing being Syrian until or like

58:38

Middle Eastern until very recently, and

58:40

it's been really liberating for me because I

58:43

didn't want to fall into that pressure. But

58:45

yeah, I think even having this podcast,

58:47

people just like, oh, of course, like like

58:50

your podcast is about being like Middle Eastern

58:52

or whatever. I think people expect us

58:54

to not only talk about to make

58:57

projects better identity but to have all the answers

58:59

about identity, not about identity

59:01

per se, but like about like news or Middle

59:04

Eastern culture or like whatever. And we're

59:06

just two people. Yeah,

59:08

we're just two people floating around. We're just

59:10

two people who don't know how to read God how

59:14

to read. But

59:17

I mean to answer to answer that question. There's

59:19

definitely a pressure, but I'm realizing

59:21

that there's a there's a strength

59:23

in being able to talk about identity

59:26

and the work that we do. And I

59:28

really appreciate the platform that is

59:30

available to us talk about our identity because

59:33

I don't know, it's it's a big deal. And

59:35

navigating it is just making

59:37

sure that pressure is not from making

59:40

sure you're not doing things because of the pressure.

59:42

I think that's the most important thing that I'm just realizing

59:44

as I'm talking about this, is that if you're

59:47

making a project about your identity because

59:49

of pressure, don't do it. If

59:51

you're just making a project and a project

59:53

that you want to make and it happens to be about identity,

59:56

then that's where that's where you should go.

59:58

So I think just navigating where pressure

1:00:00

is coming from, if that makes sense, that makes sense.

1:00:03

Yeah, because we didn't sit out. We didn't

1:00:05

make this podcast because of

1:00:08

pressure. We made it. It kind

1:00:10

of just happened naturally. So that's

1:00:12

a good example of that. Anyways, next

1:00:14

questions from a Bickella dot

1:00:16

Hedri. Who has been your

1:00:18

favorite guest? Mm

1:00:21

hmm, probably and I

1:00:23

think I have one. I think I have one answer.

1:00:26

I love talking to Alfred Molina. Say

1:00:29

the exacting I was going to say the exact

1:00:31

same thing. It's gotta be Alfie.

1:00:35

He was the warmest, most

1:00:37

and like maybe objectively the most famous

1:00:39

guests we've had on other than maybe

1:00:41

like Resa Oslin or Aslan. I'm

1:00:44

was saying his name right or wrong. I don't know. I can't pronounce

1:00:46

this, but Alfred Molina was

1:00:49

the kindest, one of the kindest people

1:00:52

I've ever met. Yeah, and

1:00:54

he was just a enjoy to talk to. He was so open,

1:00:57

he made us feel like we were equals somehow,

1:01:00

and there's a there's a gift with that,

1:01:02

Like he's just a magical person. So yeah,

1:01:04

I'm gonna go with that. Yeah,

1:01:07

I think I think backdel class would agree to for

1:01:09

their favorite guest. Yeah,

1:01:13

yeah, I you know, just

1:01:16

yeah, like you said, very kind,

1:01:19

kind soul, fun,

1:01:21

like played around with us. Let us make

1:01:23

a movie about him. Yeah,

1:01:26

he was just down to like clown.

1:01:29

He was down to clown. And I really

1:01:31

that I really appreciate someone who's down

1:01:33

to clown alone Alfred

1:01:36

Lena, Like, he was really amazing

1:01:39

person to

1:01:41

see. But I will say I've never

1:01:43

disliked a guest. I have many

1:01:46

stoking well, I have

1:01:48

one. I mean that there's one

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guest that we were like, oh, go fuck

1:01:52

yourself. At the end. We won't say who.

1:01:54

We won't even give you any context clues.

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I don't figured out. Wait,

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tell me after, tell me after um

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wait, wait, I'm just gonna text you, okay,

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not that we can. We can always edit this out too. We're so stupid.

1:02:10

I actually can't remember I

1:02:12

remember. Oh my god, oh

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my god. I want a nightmare like

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you don't even want to know, you

1:02:21

don't even oh

1:02:24

you know. We'll let that be like ethnically

1:02:26

ambiguous lore, like

1:02:28

one. Who are we talking about? Just peeved?

1:02:32

We didn't even say the gender or the

1:02:35

sex, you know, and

1:02:37

you'll never figure it out because the

1:02:39

show actually went great. It was fine, so

1:02:42

you'll never figure it out. But

1:02:44

we're profession yes,

1:02:46

one person afterward, let me just say.

1:02:49

Shrine and I were texting about

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Okay, well do you remember off

1:02:54

Mike, I'll remind you of the awful

1:02:57

everything was. Okay,

1:03:00

Well, next question, that's

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something you guys did know about us? One little

1:03:05

tidbit. Yeah, we're petty as fun.

1:03:08

Well, rarely do you really certain

1:03:11

type of person to just like truly

1:03:13

rub us the wrong way? But yeah,

1:03:16

I'm kidding. I think I won't say.

1:03:18

There have been a couple of guests that I'm like, maybe

1:03:21

like we're not friends in real life, and I there's

1:03:23

no, I don't know, like some guests

1:03:25

for me, they're just there.

1:03:28

It was a great conversation, but it was like, okay,

1:03:30

cool, but it's rare

1:03:32

that I dislike someone as

1:03:34

much as I'm going to. I

1:03:39

mean, it's not it's just it's

1:03:41

disappointing. Anyways, At

1:03:44

Jil Sandbord, I'm just gonna go run along at

1:03:46

Jil Sandbor says asks

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can you interview some of the history making American

1:03:51

politicians that were elected. I

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would love to talk

1:03:55

to those politicians that were elected. So

1:03:58

back when I said up the top, a lot of

1:04:00

lgbt Q plus candidates

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were elected into Congress, into the Senate,

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including Sarah McBride, who

1:04:08

is the first transgender public official in the

1:04:10

United States. Amazing, But some of the

1:04:12

other people that we would love to talk to

1:04:15

Chevron Jones, the first openly

1:04:17

lb G t Q plus senator in

1:04:20

Florida, Michelle Raynard

1:04:22

Gouldsby, first black queer female

1:04:24

state legislator in Florida, Taylor

1:04:27

Small, first transgender state

1:04:29

legislator in Vermont, Jabari

1:04:32

Bridgeport, first l b G t Q person

1:04:34

of color elected to the New York the New York State

1:04:36

Senate, Kim Jackson, first

1:04:39

openly lb G t Q plus person

1:04:41

elected to the Georgia Senate.

1:04:44

Mariy Turner, first non binary

1:04:46

Muslim state lawmaker in

1:04:48

the United States. Shout out to

1:04:51

you and Richie Torres,

1:04:53

first of b t t Q plus after Latino

1:04:55

congress man, and

1:04:58

Mondere Jones, first openly gay

1:05:00

black member of Congress. I know that I

1:05:02

was trying to zoom pass those questions, but I felt

1:05:04

it would be remiss not to shout

1:05:06

out those politicians. Would love to have all

1:05:09

of them on the show. Yeah,

1:05:11

yeah, Okay, next

1:05:14

question and hopefully we can make it happen. Next

1:05:16

question. It's not a question, but I wanted

1:05:18

to shout it out because Ginger is

1:05:20

a huge supporter. But at Ginger shoot

1:05:23

her handle is hard for me to My

1:05:26

dyslexia is getting better of me at Ginger

1:05:29

Ginger's voco Oh, is that a

1:05:31

final fantasy reference? If it is,

1:05:34

I love you, final fantasy is the best.

1:05:36

She says, I'm probably too late. This

1:05:38

is the last question that I saw on Instagram. I'm probably too

1:05:41

late. No questions, just sending y'all

1:05:43

love. Thank you Ginger, you're

1:05:45

the best. Thank you for your support. You're always rocking

1:05:48

our merch. She's

1:05:51

the fucking queen. But thank you for

1:05:53

sending that. All the love is felt.

1:05:55

So we have one more

1:05:58

person that asks questions. We're going to Facebook.

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Alec Miracle, also a longtime supporter.

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We met you. We met We met

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Alec at our first live show

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in person. It was really cool. He has

1:06:10

a question for each of us. Okay, so

1:06:13

we're gonna wrap this up. Anna. His question

1:06:15

for you, what part of the human

1:06:17

face is your favorite? Um?

1:06:20

I guess I need some clarifications my own or

1:06:22

other people's. It says

1:06:25

the human face, so maybe like

1:06:27

facial features, like what part you maybe appreciate.

1:06:30

It's an interesting question. I will say that I

1:06:32

would maybe bar

1:06:35

into eyebrows

1:06:37

too on the nose. No, that's a great one.

1:06:39

That makes sense. You have great fucking eyebrows too.

1:06:42

And then for me, Alec asked,

1:06:44

what is my favorite ice cream flavor?

1:06:47

That is? I mean, shout out

1:06:50

to the saffron rose water um

1:06:53

ice cream that is delicious. I

1:06:55

don't eat dairy, so it's maybe

1:06:58

like a cheating question for me, but I was.

1:07:01

I really love cookie dough ice cream. Um,

1:07:03

when I can find it veganized, um.

1:07:05

There. I'm lucky that l A has so many vegan

1:07:07

options. I love cookie dough. I

1:07:10

love um.

1:07:12

Maybe that maybe mean cookie is my favorite cookie.

1:07:16

Yeah, I just love cookie dough itself,

1:07:19

and so having that ice cream was like great,

1:07:22

But I just cream? Was it my go to dessert? I

1:07:24

love cookies. That's my cook desserts. And that's

1:07:26

probably why I like cookie dough ice cream. It's

1:07:29

because cookies are an ice cream. But yeah,

1:07:31

those are all the questions that we gathered this

1:07:33

time. If I missed any as we were recording,

1:07:36

I'll save them for next time like I did for

1:07:39

this episode. But this was These

1:07:41

are really fun for us to do. I think there's it's

1:07:43

always nice to kind of when

1:07:45

we don't have guests on to not always have to talk

1:07:47

about news. So thank

1:07:49

you so much for everyone that asked a question. We

1:07:52

love you all and uh

1:07:54

we hope that this was fun for you as it was

1:07:57

for us. Okay,

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thank you, and any

1:08:01

last words before I wrap up? Um,

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oh god, I mean I'm

1:08:07

spot I'm just joking. Ah

1:08:10

yeah, I mean, just stay calm

1:08:12

everything, you know, even if it

1:08:14

doesn't work out in our favor, which is looking like it

1:08:16

is, you know, there's always going to be more work to do.

1:08:18

This country is a trash heap.

1:08:21

Just because we don't have one person in charge,

1:08:23

um, doesn't necessarily mean we have the

1:08:26

right person in charge. Like we just have gotten

1:08:28

rid of a very very evil man. But

1:08:31

we need to continue working, baby.

1:08:34

We need to work until it's

1:08:37

right. We have to work till not everything

1:08:39

is just like not great. You know, we

1:08:41

need to work till it's better than

1:08:43

bullshit, which is what we're being served

1:08:46

right now, is complete bullshit. So yeah,

1:08:50

getting rid of one man doesn't get rid of

1:08:52

all the people that voted for him. Yeah, I just don't

1:08:54

get complacent, like I know it's tough

1:08:56

and we're tired, but like we gotta

1:08:58

fluck it up. Yeah, regardless

1:09:01

of it if it goes in our favorite or not. I would

1:09:03

recommend like getting involved in your local politics,

1:09:05

like getting involved, like I mean, Nythia Roman

1:09:08

was like the first person that like really motivated

1:09:10

for me and a lot of people to like,

1:09:12

like we have a say in how our city looks, like

1:09:15

our city council members and they represent

1:09:17

us and all of that stuff. So I think getting

1:09:20

involved in your community. I did

1:09:22

a couple of like hygiene kit drives through

1:09:24

Metra and that was really rewarding

1:09:27

for me. But also I

1:09:29

have the time to spend to do that.

1:09:31

So if you have time to help

1:09:33

your community, it's a lifelong

1:09:36

job to be present

1:09:38

for yourself and for the people that matter and for the

1:09:40

community and for people that are more vulnerable

1:09:42

than you are. So just know that

1:09:45

if we do win, the work

1:09:47

doesn't end. And that's

1:09:50

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