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Oh darn this back episode

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seventeen. This

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is Anna, this is Shrine. Today

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we're gonna talk about quick roundup of Saudi

0:09

Arabia stuff and all the super sexy stuff

0:11

that's going on over there, super sexy at

0:13

the Rich Carleton. We're

0:15

also gonna give you some updates about America

0:18

and Trump and the dumb ship seats up to

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We're gonna talk a little about Syria being

0:23

on their ship when it comes to climbate control. Yeah, and

0:26

um. We're also gonna get into a really

0:28

special guests. You know, we have very special

0:30

guests by the name of Miles Gray, not to

0:32

be confused with Miles Davis, because

0:35

we couldn't get Miles Davis, so we had to end up with cancel

0:38

you canceled, and we already made the made

0:41

the episode pick. We have to keep someone with name

0:43

Miles. Um, so

0:45

yes, stay tuned. It's a great episode. Say hi, Miles,

0:48

who who

0:50

are we? Where

0:53

did we become? From? Who do we

0:55

become? What is it to

0:57

be? What to be? Is?

1:00

Did were? Who

1:03

are hears? Where

1:05

are my pains? Why

1:07

were we born? We

1:11

are ethnically

1:13

and vagueous And

1:18

we are back with episode seven.

1:21

Teens that's right. We are

1:23

a teenager. Now, fuck you, mom.

1:25

We can't buy cigarettes yet we can? Oh

1:28

no, you're right. It's twenty one now I thought it was eighteen.

1:30

Na they up to it. Oh well, either way, we can't

1:32

buy cigarettes, can't buy those Swiss or sweeze. But

1:34

it's okay because if if I stand outside of

1:36

seven eleven long enough, some shady fund will buy

1:39

it for me. And I have been that shady fuck.

1:41

Oh yeah. If the teen's like, can you give me some swissheres,

1:43

I'm like, does some cash?

1:46

I'm not above it. Whatever. Who cares kids

1:48

are bad? I'm bad? Who nine here to make

1:50

no, you know, assumptions

1:53

or judgments about these little chill trees were still

1:55

minors. We have time to commit like a really bad

1:57

crime and go to the juvene instead of like real dree.

2:00

I wish we had like a door slamming sound effect

2:03

for our team years our podcast,

2:06

Senior. I

2:08

didn't mean fucking mom, Mom. I love you. You're

2:10

the only person that cares about me. I'm learning

2:14

nos kaka. My

2:16

mom has been to Saudi Arabia. It's true.

2:18

She turned her back on me when I was in tenth grade

2:20

to go on pilgrimage to Mecca.

2:23

Hey, I was in seven. I was

2:25

seven. You know the rule is you're not supposed to

2:27

go unless you have like nothing left. Wait,

2:29

what You're supposed to go after all

2:32

your like responsibilities

2:34

are done? Oh ship? Yeah, but Muslims

2:37

straight up ignore that rule, Like well, should I need a veka

2:39

to pagrammage. We

2:44

were like watched by this like older this

2:46

older woman that my mom is friends with, and

2:48

she got into like almost a car accident when

2:50

she was driving into school. It was really insane. She dude.

2:53

I was watched by my dad and his crazy

2:55

ass alcoholic drinking, smoking party ask

2:57

best friend. And so it was like two months

2:59

with as them and two

3:01

months yeah, my mom were eight straight bounced.

3:04

It was just like oh, you know, I gotta go find myself.

3:06

And it was just me left because

3:08

my brother had moved down and been all gangster and ship

3:11

and yeah, it was just me and my dad and his

3:13

best friend and the two of them just part

3:15

hurting for like weeks

3:17

and me being like please and

3:20

then being like oh right, right you

3:22

you okay? Yeah we had pizza hut whatever.

3:26

Anyway, So it draws in relations of children

3:28

of Muslim

3:31

pilgrimage. Yum, Okay,

3:33

this is a very special episode because we have

3:35

a very special guests now

3:38

at my day job that I talked about all the

3:40

time, and I talk very positively

3:42

about it, correct shuring you love

3:44

your job. It's great. Love

3:46

your job. No one loves your job

3:48

more than you. Yes, don't be snitching on me

3:50

on Twitter right now. Snitches

3:54

a fallen podcast. But um, yeah,

3:57

So one of my hosts is Myles Gray, and

3:59

he's here today.

4:03

I'm here. The

4:07

reason we're having him on because if you've ever looked

4:09

into Miles Aside, it's incredibly ethnically

4:11

ambiguous. It's very ethnically ambiguous.

4:13

I know nothing about you, Miles. I have no idea

4:16

what most people don't.

4:18

Yeah, and my ethnicity power

4:20

it's you know, I'm a chameleon whenever gets me free

4:23

ship on that Yeah

4:26

exactly. My sister can passes Jewish. Sometimes

4:28

I'm a little envious. What's crazy? People will aggressively

4:31

just tell you what you are. You're in Nicaraguan,

4:33

right, free food,

4:35

Yes, sir, Yeah, that's

4:38

that's nice. That's nice. You're

4:40

pretty ethnically biguous too, that's true. But then

4:43

why don't we start this podcast. Actually

4:47

wait, I'm so jealous.

4:52

So you're one of the you're the co host

4:55

of the Daily Sight Guys. Yeah,

4:57

I'm the co host. Miles

4:59

and I about twenty five hours a day together

5:02

a small lass room. It's not even a

5:05

joke, And you wonder how that's possible. It's because

5:07

we're in that inception dream state. One

5:09

hour. It feels like it's

5:11

just never ending, but it's

5:14

a good time. Yeah. I want to I want to learn some more

5:16

about you, but I also want to get some news. So

5:19

let's dive into some news. For Miles

5:21

isn't Saudi Arabian, so it doesn't know a lot about

5:24

I only know about things in

5:26

countries that I'm from. Okay,

5:28

Yeah, yeah, I woke say yeah, I

5:30

mean, look, it's one world, one

5:33

country at a time. But

5:35

no, I've been I've kept I've kept up

5:37

because obviously, with Anna in the building,

5:40

right, she will let everyone

5:42

know I have stirred up panic attacks and

5:44

Novice be like,

5:45

yeah, I'm

5:48

sorry you have said that. Yes, I

5:50

do lose. I should imagine that very well.

5:53

Um, So what

5:55

there's I feel like? Okay, so we've been tweeted

5:58

up people, Okay, so much happened

6:00

in Saudi Arabia and people be tweeting like, YO, can't

6:02

wait to hear you talk about Saudi Arabia girls

6:07

and guys. You know, only girls listen to this and if they

6:09

are guys, still call them girl girls. Ship

6:12

went down? So Mr

6:14

Precious Mohammed Bin Solomon

6:20

is losing his ship. Okay, now here's okay.

6:23

In the last two weeks, eleven

6:25

princes, including a billionaire, have

6:27

been arrested. One guy

6:30

died in a helicopter

6:32

accident, another one died in a gunfight,

6:36

arrested very suspect.

6:40

The Prime Minister of Lebanon, Mrs

6:44

sad Hai sorry

6:48

how are you was forced to quit

6:50

being the prime minister. It

6:52

was a first of all resignation.

6:55

You better quits it

6:58

like it's like surrounded by a bunch of

7:00

princes like on

7:03

a visual podcast. Uh So,

7:05

Now apparently Saudi Arabia says Lebanon

7:08

is declaring war against it. Has Bola

7:10

has declared war against Saudi Arabia.

7:12

Saudi Arabia says Iran and sketch, it's

7:14

a lot of like is

7:17

just the used to fucking just

7:19

sit down? Yeah, which won't

7:21

happen because Basalmon I think is really starting

7:23

to get nervous, and so like anyone

7:25

who kind of like looks at him weird will be put

7:27

in his Ritz Carlton hotel

7:30

jail. That's where he's holding people in the Ritz

7:32

Carlton. Of it's

7:36

a honestly like

7:39

it sounds like why would you try and go out with a gun fight

7:41

if you're like, wow, I just being Its Carlton for

7:43

a few weeks, because then it doesn't sound like you're holding

7:45

anyone prisoner, like, oh, there's taking the

7:48

thing is like they're being very open about being held

7:50

in ris the Riz Carlton's like they're putting that that's

7:53

out there in the news. Maybe maybe maybe Rich Carlton

7:55

is like sponsoring the yeah,

7:57

the power consolidation. Like

8:00

out here you try to run your

8:02

country and got paranoid one dand

8:04

start arresting everyone who has even remote bit of

8:06

like my arrest was spos cars.

8:08

But if you're a prisoner, they'll honor your points. Yeah,

8:11

yeah, you know,

8:14

I just transfer to your family,

8:17

Like yeah, so your husband died

8:19

at the Rich Carlton while in prison,

8:22

actually got a freeze to

8:26

night two days, a sweet

8:29

maybe a spot treatment maybe if

8:31

it was like a really bad death. Yeah,

8:34

it's a scale. So hes Bowla is

8:36

apparently allegedly backed by IRN.

8:38

I say that because I really can't say anything

8:41

negative about Iran because I still got family

8:43

out there. So this

8:45

is one of those biased podcast miles. You gotta get

8:47

used to it. Hey, look is

8:50

innocent. Get out

8:52

of here. I get it, you know what I mean? Sometimes

8:54

we gotta go to bat Yes,

8:57

exactly, so they're not

8:59

so they they probably are,

9:01

right, what are you going to talk about that here?

9:04

So you know it's like Sunni Muslim Saudi

9:06

Arabian monarchy versus SHII revolutionary

9:08

on whatever. Yeah, it

9:10

looks like small talk, but

9:13

the point is from my understanding.

9:16

Okay, here are my theories. Okay, Jared

9:19

Kushner did an unannounced trip to Saudi

9:21

Arabia one I think potentially

9:23

that was him saying, hey,

9:25

look you're on, you're on, America's got your back.

9:28

Uh, do what you need to do to consolidate your power.

9:30

Or here's my other theory. We talked

9:32

about this. I don't know a code.

9:36

Saudi Araba is trying to create their new Dubai called

9:38

me, and they need a bunch of foreign investors,

9:40

so that could be another thing. Maybe he doesn't know that Jared Kushner

9:43

has your money and he's he'd

9:46

be invited to broke his Dude, Yeah,

9:49

I know, your underwater on the most expensive building

9:51

ever because fucking like air people

9:53

are just like, oh, you're American and like you

9:56

have like a family, come over here

9:58

us you're rich. Yeah. Also, the like I

10:00

don't think they read the news. They don't. They

10:04

literally block out the news, like they've

10:07

like banned Alto Zeerra and like every other

10:09

good news source so well

10:12

that people the jokes on them, which

10:14

he was like, oh yeah, I can get that money. Neon

10:16

is insane if you didn't hear about the Saudi

10:18

Arabia is trying to make the next like

10:21

like Arab Las Vegas, which is already existing

10:23

because that's Dubai, But Saudi Arabia is

10:25

gonna be calling get Neon with an m mot

10:28

neon um and it's crazy.

10:30

Is there going to be alcohol? No, that's

10:33

the thing he said. It's going to be separate from

10:35

the economy and government, so it's

10:38

gonna be like its own world. I don't know what that actually

10:40

details, but it might have alcohol. I well,

10:42

it's Muslims. Even Dubai,

10:44

like they have bars and stuff,

10:47

but it's usually just for like the

10:49

British, like business people or the

10:51

tourists that go there, because my cousin

10:54

lives there and most of his company

10:56

are Brits and like a lot of people

10:58

in Dubai are British or just in grants

11:00

and they go to bars, but you don't

11:02

see any Arabs there. Usually it's really it's like and

11:05

if you do, it's like socializing. Yeah,

11:07

isn't like you almost have like you have to be

11:09

a member of the club to then make it official.

11:12

So it's like even if you walk into a bar, like you sign

11:14

up to be a member of the club, it's

11:16

like a weird bypass. Look, I don't know, you

11:18

have to get a doctor's note that says like you have to do

11:25

boredom and sadness. Yeah,

11:29

so what's Jared

11:31

get out of it? On the other one, if it's if I

11:34

also don't think Jared Jared's the Middle

11:36

East guy right in the light house, I mean I

11:38

don't know why saying I don't know why

11:41

just because like Trump assigned him that role, but

11:43

also like when Rex Tillerson every time Rexy

11:47

would go, he was there

11:49

to just like have the Qatari border is taken

11:51

down and all that ship and try and like smooth out that

11:53

problem. Honestly, I think people,

11:55

I think these guys just go to these

11:57

Arab countries just so they have an article written

12:00

they went to this Arab country and they're like, oh they

12:02

tried, like you know, like oh, we are trying

12:04

to talk to them, and that this

12:06

is our effort. Like I don't think they even like douche it. There's

12:08

like they do it for the publicity stunt or

12:11

something like. I don't know. Well, Rex Silison he is you

12:13

know, hashtag oil boys, so he I think the

12:15

reason he was brought into the White House

12:17

was because of his knowledge at the Middle East and his

12:19

work there. But that doesn't

12:21

translate over to politics. So it's

12:24

not exactly what you's over,

12:27

Yeah exactly. So um

12:31

hey, look I don't know what the fun is going

12:33

on. I think Rex Tillison was sent over to like

12:35

try and like do something. Maybe the butter

12:37

solution was like potentially like fueling

12:40

the fire. I don't know. Maybe he was being like with oil

12:43

fire, oil oil boy,

12:45

Yep, there it is and real a real quick update

12:47

on guitar. It has come out that you

12:50

A is trying to destroy

12:52

guitars an insane article.

12:55

I an sent me this article and I

12:58

my mouth was like a gape eating

13:00

this. It was hold on um

13:03

so e. U A plans to weaken guitars

13:06

economy. According to an email account by usfl

13:09

Taiba, which was leaked according

13:11

to the Intercept, who is the UA ambassador

13:14

to the United States, it says

13:16

that oh

13:18

boy, okay, so one we know that you A was

13:20

behind the hack that put that Uran is

13:22

the greatest to wherever the funk on that Qatar website,

13:25

which they denied. But then the c I A, n FBI came out

13:27

and we're like that and

13:30

then it was like intelligence that

13:32

like they straight up, we're having

13:34

a meeting the day before, like the top

13:36

u A officials being like, so we will take

13:38

down Quitar literally

13:41

a quote a quote. It's objective is

13:43

to push Guitar's economy to collapse,

13:46

reduce the value of its bonds and increase

13:48

the credit costs, ultimately creating a currency

13:50

crisis that drains the country's reserves.

13:54

Just collapse. But this

13:58

this weekend I watched like an sort

14:00

of haters back off, and I feel like there's like there's

14:02

some connection here. It's like ar needs to be like back

14:05

off? Is it ar

14:07

or cutter? Okay, first

14:09

of all, what I've

14:13

heard this people people say, yeah,

14:17

they do and it's stupid. That's

14:20

so dumb. Anyway, it's Qatar

14:22

anyway, Why are they hating on them because they have the Olympics

14:24

or the woke up? Yeah? Probably in two.

14:27

That's also a dark that's a big question

14:29

mark for a lot of people too. Yeah, I don't know how you're gonna

14:31

have a World Cup in one of the hottest places on Earth.

14:33

No, truly. Also, they have no board, Their borders are

14:35

all shut down, so they have no ability to like bring

14:37

anything in and out. No, because this

14:40

document obtained by the intercept

14:42

it further hence towards a plant of stripping

14:44

Quitar from its role to host the Football

14:46

World Cup in twenty two. So

14:48

they don't want that publicity there.

14:50

They they they're trying to make Qatar into

14:53

this unreputable un there,

14:57

trying to make it an un Yeah. No, because

15:00

honestly, Guitar needs this World Cup just for

15:02

tourism reasons and for like the economy and

15:05

if they want to strip it of that, then that just

15:07

sucking sucks. Like you know what, remember China

15:10

and their World Cup and like Brazil, like it helps the

15:12

economy a lot when people go there, and like

15:14

they make it into this like tourists spectacle

15:16

attraction thing, so and

15:18

then all the buildings are like abandoned like the next

15:21

year. Yea, like those Olympics and World

15:23

Cups. Yeah, that's

15:25

true. And Brazil like all those places

15:27

are ghost town really oh yeah

15:29

yeah, yeah, it's it's it's it's bad. I don't know.

15:31

I mean, like, hey, these Olympics,

15:33

they do bring people, they do bring a lot of tourism, but I don't

15:35

know the cost of like local people. Yeah,

15:38

it's this the

15:40

U a E. I am so sad,

15:43

Like why can't Arabs just like stick together, like

15:45

look at the fucking because Arabs are low key

15:47

just mean girls. It's so annoying. Like

15:49

Middle Eastern countries are just like mean girls

15:52

being like what did you say, I'll destroy your

15:54

economy. But like we're all such a every

15:56

every country over there so small for the most

15:59

part, and like why can't you all rallied together brothers

16:01

and sisters just like like we're all in this together.

16:03

Look at Israel, they had all

16:05

the Jews have each other's backs. I want

16:07

to be like the Jews sometimes and have each other's

16:09

dad. One world guys,

16:12

One world one anyway, Oh,

16:16

Qatar Airways got kicked out the biggest Middle

16:18

Eastern air show. Wait,

16:22

really kicked out of

16:24

there. They're not allowed to bring their new

16:26

airplanes to the international like Middle

16:28

East Air Show, which is apparently like huge.

16:32

It was like where everybody flat in Dubai. Yeah,

16:36

not to cut that. Nobody cares. Okay,

16:39

should I tell what I said about Israel and the Jews?

16:41

Know what? You don't say any negative? You said

16:43

you want to be again?

16:51

Oh yeah, we want

16:55

to start reviews saying we were unreasonably

16:57

hostile towards Israel. And then our next episode was

16:59

called we were reasonably astill. So we

17:02

do leaning

17:04

hard. Yeah, we're mean girling Israel. It's reels

17:06

top like even the people

17:08

who do that. You're like, okay, well guess what this next episode.

17:13

Yeah, this

17:16

name is a fucking it was a bump. No,

17:19

we're just fully aware of everything. Yeah,

17:22

I don't think you can funk with us. I'm

17:24

just okay. Um, we're basically

17:26

Quitar in most situations,

17:33

poor Qatar. I know, well

17:35

anyway, Urga dn wagon

17:42

Ordgan, it's what Okay,

17:45

the president of Turkey is going

17:47

to go to um Kuai

17:50

and Qatar, and then the what

17:53

is his name, Ghana's foreign

17:55

minister, Shirley your car butchway

17:58

is going to go to Quaitar. Basically, they're all these different

18:00

countries are going to try and like like

18:03

smooth at issues, but that

18:05

will never happen if Saudi Arabia doesn't like you,

18:07

because like satur Abia is top mean girl. It's

18:10

the topest mean girl. Look what look at the princess

18:12

and the Rits car like what like

18:14

yeah, King of Morocco is going, oh

18:18

no, he's already there. I'm

18:21

sorry, this reporting is wonderful anyway,

18:23

everyone's going, but this

18:25

is actually the Foreign Minister of sadur Abia said, the

18:27

beef with Qatar is like non existent, which

18:29

is like what are you talking about? Like

18:32

you can't literally they're fucking

18:34

with everyone in that country. You're making it

18:36

like impossible for

18:38

anyone to like get food, Like

18:41

there's people dying of starvation

18:43

and what's the one we don't have water drought?

18:46

No I don't know

18:49

pestilence. This is my the funniest

18:51

thing. The issue with Qatar is very small

18:53

and should not distract people, according to the Saudi

18:56

Foreign Minister, very small, just concerning

18:58

an entire government's economy. It's

19:00

collapsed. But that's like the classic playbook for people

19:02

who are doing dirt, Like you'll never be like yeah, yeah,

19:04

we're actively trying to say no

19:09

small fries whatever. Yeah.

19:11

So, but here's the thing.

19:13

Lebanon declaring war against Saudi Arabia

19:16

is that's a big deal. How

19:18

does that go? Like Lebanon is like four by four

19:20

and Saudi Arabia is like, right,

19:24

are they hiding like a huge army. There's

19:26

also very different countries because Lebanon is very

19:29

Christian and westernized, like they're

19:31

like they're not that. I mean, Saudi

19:33

Arabia is just more button up in like

19:35

this Muslim country and Lebanon

19:38

has always been like the forefront of Arab

19:40

music and Arab like

19:42

like I don't know, entertainment and

19:45

just very much western country.

19:47

And I don't even know if it has like a big army

19:49

or anything. They have like radical groups

19:51

like BA obviously, but Saudi

19:54

Arabia is in

19:56

my opinion, far more able

19:58

to like go to or like, I've

20:01

never heard of Lebanon planning or anybody.

20:03

They have a pretty pretty strong arsenal. Lebanon

20:06

is like literally the sides of my pinky finger nail, like

20:08

on a map, like smaller than that. Yeah,

20:11

so Rex Tillies. He says

20:13

that Washington strongly backed Lebanon's

20:15

independence and respected Harreri as a strong

20:18

partner of the United States. Um and they

20:20

still refer to him as the prime Minister. So yeah,

20:24

I don't feel like anyone is on the same page

20:27

even remotely because they were. Tillerson's

20:29

like, no, Harriri is not being held

20:31

captive against his will in Saudi Arabia and the Lebons

20:34

Lebanon is like, well, where the fuck is Where

20:37

is he? Then? You think if he found and then went

20:39

to Hawaii, what do you spawn

20:43

treatment you just find my iPhone? Yeah.

20:46

There. He's made no public remarks since announcing

20:48

his resignation in a speech televised from

20:51

Saudi Arabia, saying he feared assassination

20:53

and accusing Huron and his Bulah of

20:56

problem speech, saying the fear

20:58

assassination like they're in trouble he's

21:01

like trouble. It's

21:04

like the Hunger Games and like when like the guys

21:06

like being held captive and like he's there's a just

21:09

like it's all remember the part where he

21:11

has this like very tight collar and he's like I'm

21:13

fine and sorry? Which is

21:15

what is this on the Hunger Games when I've never seen

21:17

it? I shouldn't have seen it. Oh

21:19

no, I'm just no. I mean like it's just like there's

21:22

it's just the thing. It's like Fast and Furious is the best franchise. So

21:24

like why would I watch that? You know, you

21:26

don't believe that she does? She does. I

21:28

do believe that about that life. I'm ride or die,

21:30

literally ride

21:32

or in

21:34

a fast car or die

21:39

Tokyo drift. Tokyo

21:41

drift is the weakest link. Okay. But yeah,

21:43

so that's a quick little Middle East turn round

21:46

up. And

21:57

I wanna do you I want to

21:59

get into into um

22:01

before actually, no, before I talk to you, Miles, I

22:03

wanted to just bring up really quick before we acknowledge

22:05

your presence. Yeah, you can just stay quiet for the

22:08

longer. Um. Uh, Syria

22:10

fucking signed the Paris Climate

22:12

Agreement. What does this mean? This means

22:14

the US is the only fucking country

22:17

that has not signed this climate agreement. And

22:19

I was reading this being like Syria

22:23

is going through some ship. Siria

22:25

still has the time to sign, Like you

22:28

what you signed the climate agreement and

22:31

we're not able to do that, like like yea,

22:34

carbon emissions would rank pretty low on

22:36

the Yeah. Like I was like,

22:39

what else you need to go to the fucking like Christmas

22:41

shopping done? Like what? Like I

22:43

literally feel like anyway, So we went to Harris

22:48

But why this is? So? This is

22:50

very important because it leaves

22:52

us isolated being the only

22:55

the only fucking country to not sign

22:58

this agreement. Um, what is agreement?

23:00

It's an agreement that requires global governments

23:02

to limit temperature rises to know more than two

23:04

degrees celsius. And this is what scientists

23:07

say is the threshold of safety beyond which

23:09

the ravages of global warming are likely to become

23:12

the catastrophic and irreversible.

23:14

Which is wild because a lot of

23:16

serious strife started because of global

23:18

warming. Yeah and um

23:21

wait a second, did

23:23

they figure it out? Did that?

23:26

Was ludicrous? Things that one of Trump's

23:28

promises was to withdraw from this agreement,

23:30

and people were like, all of the dumbas supporters

23:33

were like yeah, like like like

23:35

global warming isn't real. But the fact that they're

23:37

the only people now that aren't in this agreement just

23:39

makes us look so stupid. And

23:42

the US is the world's largest economy and

23:44

the second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases

23:46

after China. This

23:49

is from

23:55

but I just thought that was it

23:57

was. Let's just ludicrous that

24:00

I signed this, like to get back

24:02

from me from an Asian tour. Fucking Trump.

24:04

Do you see that? Did you

24:06

see that he wore the exact same thing that World

24:09

War twice? Yeah,

24:11

they haven't. There's another who were like a white linen shirts.

24:13

Oh my god.

24:16

Literally these photos next

24:18

to each other, like it's like he fucking

24:21

made it. It's like he couldn't make Oh

24:28

god, that made my day. Um.

24:31

The last thing I want to talk about is this hilarious,

24:34

hilarious tweet yesterday from our president.

24:37

Um. Literally, he tweeted, why

24:39

would Kim Jung insult me by

24:41

calling me que old when I was never

24:44

in all caps call him quote unquote

24:46

short and fet Oh well, I try

24:48

so hard to be his friend and maybe some day

24:50

that will happen. Yeah. I actually got

24:52

very nervous that he would tweet that he was short and facts.

24:55

Then I was like, literally, like I

24:57

was in bed last night and I was just like imagining all my

24:59

windows like blow going out, because my

25:00

god was because

25:03

he yeh,

25:06

two hours before we tweeted that, he said,

25:08

there's the fake news media. I remember when cricket

25:10

Hillary Clinton, a secretary of state, was

25:13

begging Russia to be our friend with the

25:15

misspelled reset button. Obama

25:17

tried also, but he had zero chemistry with Putin.

25:20

So he's implying that he has a lot of chemistry with Putin,

25:23

and um, that's adorable and idea

25:25

pretty yeah,

25:28

but I just couldn't like, literally,

25:30

the article title is

25:33

just Trump saying I would

25:35

never call him short and fat, and I just

25:38

like, also, you're old, Like it's not an

25:40

insult, it's a fact. So Joe Donald

25:42

Trump is, let's be real, he's not in

25:45

athletic shape either. No, he

25:47

got a diaper on, Like, you

25:49

know, one's insulting you by calling you old, like this is

25:52

a fucking factor like in your seventies. Man. But

25:54

he's so fucking vain, you know what I mean. He's

25:56

styled his hair in such a way to obscure, what's

25:58

really going on? Slute really too his head. The

26:01

last thing he wants to be called as old. Oh my god,

26:03

that's probably that to him was probably the worst thing ever,

26:05

my god. That just anyways.

26:08

I just wanted to bring that up because in and

26:11

all of this um insanity,

26:14

I had a little bit of a laugh last night and

26:16

now you wore l O L yeahs

26:19

on earth by um.

26:22

Now I want to I want to get to know our guests

26:24

a little bit more. Milandra Miles

26:28

whatever my name is, Milandra, my

26:31

my Christian name is. Thank

26:34

you so much for coming to do the podcast. I did harass

26:36

you multiple times across from our desk that we

26:38

shared, you know you did, and I asked you if I would come

26:40

on. You're yo, I

26:42

remember, because you were so shock, like, oh you want

26:44

to come to show Yes. I

26:48

remember saying I'm like, yo, when you're gonna have me on ethnically

26:50

ambiguous and you're like, oh really, so

26:52

don't come at me like that's probably fact.

26:54

That sounds like a very good react that actually

26:57

really yeah. But then I just really

26:59

have to look at you and be like, where is this fool? And

27:02

then you were like you're perfect. I

27:04

have no idea. You look like one

27:06

of those guys. Yeah, and

27:09

um yeah, and Hassan

27:11

Minhaje was busy, so oh

27:16

yeah. I mean it's not I mean, like, it's not a

27:18

prerequisite that you have to be ethnically

27:20

ambiguess to be on the show. But it is a great bonus.

27:22

Yeah, I mean yeah, you real with you. We don't really

27:25

have non ethnically ambiguous people on the show. This

27:27

is only our third or second guest. Their third

27:29

guest? Who is our second guest? We

27:32

had Alex and a

27:34

bachelor we had

27:36

hid from now we had Sarah

27:39

June. You're a fourth guest. Yeah, actual

27:43

great

27:45

tour. All right, so we had two persians.

27:48

You're a second male boy

27:51

girl boy girl girl girl. No,

27:53

it's been girl girl, guy guy. Whatever

27:55

doesn't matter. Gender is relevant.

27:58

No, gender is very important. Just kidding. Uh,

28:01

it's a construct, Anna, Miles.

28:03

Is that they thank you? Um

28:06

um, but no, So I wanna

28:08

so I know nothing about you, which is on purpose

28:10

because I want to get I know nothing about you, so like

28:15

and we got Miles grand I

28:18

like getting to know people on the

28:20

spot and having the audience

28:23

learned with me as I ask you questions. Um,

28:26

so let's get into it. I

28:28

have a bunch of star time now.

28:31

Okay, Miles, where's

28:34

your mother from? My mother is from Japan, specifically,

28:36

Ni got the Japan nice And where's your

28:38

West Coast father from? That is

28:40

from l A. Yes, so you're

28:43

you're halfy. I'm halfy. You're half

28:45

black and half jack, half breath Blackenese,

28:48

you're half breathe the original jigga.

28:51

Okay, because

28:54

I've been saying that most people. Okay,

28:58

that's how it works.

28:59

About Um so tell

29:02

us about your your mom coming to

29:04

the States. My mom coming

29:06

to the States. So my mom grew

29:08

up in this town called

29:12

and her originally was supposed to be bombed

29:14

by Yeah, it was was supposed to be atomic

29:17

bombed. But thank you too weather that

29:19

well, I mean really because of the weather.

29:22

Yeah, the weather you have the head to switch targets to an Asaki.

29:25

So it's disgusting. Yeah. My grandparents were

29:27

living there at the time, and like they didn't have anywhere to

29:29

go, so they're just like all right, cool. I just can't believe that. They're

29:31

like, oh, the weather, it's cloudy over there, let's just bomb

29:33

this other. Oh my god. Yeah, the weather play. I

29:35

had a lot like I'm

29:37

here, so I want

29:39

to keep talking about how weird the weather is good.

29:44

And her yeah, so her her

29:46

dad was a professor of like German philosophy,

29:49

which is really out there, um, and

29:51

so like she always kind of was encouraged to, like,

29:53

you know, do whatever you want to do. So

29:56

at like nineteen, she she took the

29:58

Trans Siberian Railroad like across

30:01

Russia and

30:03

then took a ferry across the English

30:05

Channel and went to London and started likening,

30:08

yeah, this is like in like this what so she

30:11

was like probably like than seven

30:13

just by yourself, by yourself, that's amazing.

30:15

I love that. And she didn't know she had to bring like food on the

30:17

train. She was like, I don't know. She just

30:19

thought, like food fucking appears

30:22

on this Trans Siberian railroad. But

30:24

she was like in the same like

30:26

bunk cabin as like this like older

30:28

Russian woman, and she was like breaking her off with

30:30

food. So shout out to that anonymous Russian

30:33

woman from wherever you are. Yeah, she's

30:36

probably listening. She's probably she's probably dead.

30:38

Let's be real, sorry, can

30:40

you explain where the Trans Siberian rail world goes

30:43

exactly. No, no, I

30:45

know, like she because it's like that one side

30:47

of Russia that is basically closest to the Pacific

30:50

Ocean. Yeah, you can glugle

30:52

that. I'm not I'm not a expert, but basically

30:54

takes it basically the length across

30:57

Russia and then numerous trains. Basically how

30:59

did she get to the railroad? I guess

31:01

that's my question. She had to take a boat from

31:04

Japan to like Russia, like got it.

31:07

That must have taken like the whole trip must have taken

31:09

like months. It was like a two

31:12

and a half week trip or something for two

31:14

weeks, not as long as I thought. I

31:16

mean it was seventies. So like they saw like you know, like

31:19

the train travels relatively horseback.

31:22

No, no, no no yet, like yeah,

31:25

it's like she was like yeah, organ trail or something.

31:27

Yeah, she had like dried bread like in her backpack.

31:30

She would be hydrate. She took a boat from

31:32

London to No, no, from the Holland

31:34

to London. Yeah I did that. Yeah,

31:36

hook then Holland. Yeah it's actually

31:38

very nice. Well look at me, it's probably

31:41

been upgraded, but that very great.

31:43

You still haven't told us about your own coming here. Oh.

31:46

And then you know, she like piled around Europe

31:48

for a little bit, and then she went back to

31:50

Japan and was like fully bilingual,

31:52

and then like I was doing translating work, like she's like

31:56

Japanese English English. Yeah. And then she

31:58

also like picked up like like French

32:01

and Italian because she lived out She lived in

32:03

France and Italy for a little bit too, And

32:06

when like bands would come tour in Japan, she

32:08

was like she like slowly made a way to being like

32:11

that translator cool enough

32:13

to kick it with bands and like you know translateform.

32:15

So she's like translated like queen like

32:18

sucking Rick James and s James.

32:21

He was just like cocaine,

32:25

is your mom an only child? No, she's

32:27

one of four, inter the

32:29

youngest. She's the youngest. Yeah. Interesting,

32:32

is what's your theory

32:34

there? Oh? I don't know. I was she's

32:37

just so independent and like she

32:39

sounds so cool, and I was just trying

32:41

to think of what kind of she's Yeah,

32:44

yeah, she have to be. Yeah, especially

32:47

in Japan, like it's very hoxogynistic

32:49

culture, Like she's not having it. Yeah,

32:52

it's funny because like I was, I was just like

32:54

hanging out with her when we were talking about all

32:56

this ship with Lucy Kay and stuff like that, and she's like, you know,

32:58

in Japan, like it's it's such a male dumb need

33:00

society like that stuff. Like she's like, she's

33:02

like, I feel old because that seemed normal.

33:04

It wouldn't even be questioned. Yeah exactly. But

33:06

she was like, but she was like I was the wrong one, like

33:09

when people tried it, like I didn't give a ship, Like it

33:11

wasn't like I'm like, I'm out of here. Switchblade.

33:14

She didn't even need one. She has like very she kept

33:16

the razorblade under her tongue. Have

33:19

you guys seen petty peaky blinders

33:22

the razor plas on the hat? Yeah,

33:24

boom but yeah, so yeah, she's so she's she's

33:27

very independent. Doom doom doom,

33:30

that's her. That's her whole thing. So yeah,

33:32

when she walks into any room that plays in

33:34

the background, yeah, or she she carries around

33:36

like little beats pill like

33:40

it looks it looks really but it used to

33:43

be a boom box and like that's like the years went

33:45

on, I just got her because

33:47

if she was still carrying around like boom

33:49

box I was like, yo, you're not a break

33:53

hurts. She still wearing the d distract suit

33:55

though, she so

33:58

Okay, So when how old is she when she came

34:00

here? And where did she go when she came here?

34:03

She came out here in her late twenties and

34:06

just came to l A because that's where like she was doing

34:08

like like entertainment correspondent stuff. So

34:10

she would like report on stuff on behalf

34:13

of Japanese magazines and then

34:15

write her articles about like what did she worked for Anny

34:17

magazine in America? Or just like she was

34:20

she was always like writing for like Japanese. So

34:22

she came here with the intention to move here. You

34:26

know, I haven't really talked about like what her explicit

34:28

intention was, but like she knew she always wanted

34:30

to live in English speaking countries, so like when

34:33

she lived after she lived in English, she was like, oh, hell yeah,

34:35

I'll come to I'll come to the US, and

34:37

then was able to keep doing like

34:39

doing interviews and things like that, being able to use

34:41

her bilingual when she speak when

34:43

she speaks in English, is it with an English accent?

34:46

It's like weird, Yeah, it's like a Japanese accent,

34:48

but like with a British

34:51

touch, but like you wouldn't know because it's not that explicit.

34:53

It just like because it's funny because when

34:55

you learn English, um,

34:58

either in Britain or from fish

35:00

people. You're my cousins

35:02

that live in Dubai. Now they speak English with a British

35:04

accent, like it's crazy like and

35:06

and it didn't used to but then like the more you're

35:08

around it just the more just interesting

35:10

to you pick it up. Yeah, but hers is like it's

35:13

yeah, like I guess compared to people who

35:15

learn English here, it sounds

35:17

slightly more British. But to me, I don't

35:19

know, I can't really pick up all right now let's stop there.

35:21

Now, tell us about your father. Oh god,

35:24

my father. Well,

35:25

well this sounds interesting. Does this? Does this

35:27

turn into a bed? But

35:31

no, let him go? Uh, let him go,

35:34

let him, let him let himself in and

35:36

stelf imployed here. Um no, my

35:38

dad he grew up in l a

35:40

Ah like like

35:44

Baldwin Hills area, like

35:47

yeah, all just sort of in that Crunchhaw

35:49

corridor. Um, and so

35:51

he went to like so my grandfather,

35:54

Uh, it was like an entrepreneur and

35:57

like did a bunch of all kinds of stuff, like he

35:59

pressed kords and like

36:01

like bootleg tapes though, like to send

36:03

like so if there was like a hit song, he would have like

36:05

other artists like just rerecorded pay

36:08

them whatever is Yeah, like

36:10

exactly, but like the real I mean

36:12

I still have her one of those days. But that was kind of like the business

36:14

model there. And he was actually one of the first self made

36:16

black millionaires.

36:18

Shut not really

36:20

you know this Kondomy got hit kind

36:22

of hit him, you know what I mean. And my grandma

36:25

had a tooth for the luxury goods,

36:29

like she dremped all her life and getting a coach person.

36:31

Yeah. Yeah, well she was

36:34

like where my gucci? Um,

36:36

So yeah, they yeah they had

36:38

you know he's he's but you know he's not. He's not destitute.

36:41

They're still alive. Shout out to the Karmen and Warren Um

36:44

And yeah. My dad grew up in l A

36:46

with a brother, so my my uncle, and

36:49

yeah, he always wanted to be like a photographer,

36:52

Like he started shooting for Rolling Stone when he

36:54

was like in high school. Yeah,

36:57

and so like he was kind of like contemporaries

36:59

with Cameron Crow in that area. Um

37:03

and was always like shooting photography

37:05

and you know he's you

37:07

know, my dad has so many interesting stories

37:10

like just about coming up like in l A

37:12

with all like the rock scene and things like that, Like he used

37:14

to so is that how he meant your mom? Wait?

37:16

Wait for well? Anyway he used to Oh

37:19

okay, he used to live with

37:21

Iggy Pop was one thing. And dude

37:23

almost killed my dad because he was socially

37:25

he was so fucked up, like he was trying to who

37:27

knows what, like maybe cooked dope on the stove

37:30

or something, and uh like

37:32

left the gas on all night and he

37:34

passed out my dad out of the middle night and house filled with gas

37:37

is going on, and like when he woke up, dude almost

37:39

like lit a cigarette and he was like like

37:42

turn on the gas off. He's like, yo, you gotta go, like

37:45

you're out of control or by that. At that point,

37:47

he's Jim. It's like Jim out

37:50

Jim um. And then that's a very

37:52

different vibe calling someone Iggy Pop

37:56

to the homies, he's Gym and yeah, he's always

37:58

been shooting photography and then so he

38:00

was like Michael Jackson's personal photographer for a little

38:02

bit, Like from this in the late seventies of the early

38:05

eighties, And that's where I meant. My mom was like at

38:07

a like a released party for like a

38:09

single or something that's so, and

38:11

my mom was covering the thing and

38:13

my dad was like, yeah, I'm a photographer. Was good,

38:16

you know, And what's your mom? My

38:18

mom's name is Yukikle, that's right,

38:21

or Yuki Yuki for what's

38:23

your da Todd. So Todd was

38:25

like, hey, Yuki, and Uki was like, oh hi

38:27

hid Hi Todd. I don't know, let's

38:30

do Yeah,

38:33

I'll be my mother. So

38:38

are they Are they still in l A, Yeah,

38:40

the l are but they're

38:42

separated. They got separated when I was like seventeen,

38:45

right, Okay, So when your

38:47

parents met, did was

38:50

there any sort of like issue

38:52

with your grandparents of your father getting together

38:54

with a Japanese woman Because my dad, like

38:58

my dad used to day like

39:00

all kinds of like women growing up,

39:02

so my grandparents were like used to him bringing like

39:05

like on your mom's side, well

39:08

already, like my my grandparents

39:10

were like already very curious about the world outside

39:13

of Japan, Like my grandfather was like a German

39:15

philosophy like expert. Right, they were

39:17

very open. Yeah. They lived in Nazi Germany

39:19

for a second, like my grandparents

39:21

did, so they didn't even question that she was with like

39:23

a black man. Yeah they were. I mean no,

39:27

they're very like really really open

39:29

minded. So like there's so

39:32

yeah, yeah, they like they met and they

39:34

were like, oh great, it's

39:36

great. Like so it was not like I

39:38

think my dad, my grandfather had like a couple offhanded

39:41

like World War two jokes like nothing

39:44

like nothing too crazy, but like you know,

39:46

but other than that, like he's not my grandfather

39:49

like the most open minded dude. So your

39:51

mom's dad, you're saying, but both grandparents and even

39:54

my dad's dad he's very like open

39:56

mind. So did your dad wrote in Japan with your

39:58

mom? Yea cool? Did

40:00

they get married? They got married I think here in l

40:02

A Okay, yeah. Wait, so do

40:04

you have any siblings? No, I'm my only child. Oh

40:07

that's cute. How's that lonely

40:10

one Hit Wonder, One Hit Wonder? No,

40:14

No, I think they

40:16

were like because my mom was a little bit older when she had

40:18

me, So they were like they were like there was like the last

40:20

chance, last chance saloon rolled the dice

40:23

shot the club up, boom, boom boom. Here

40:25

we are. So

40:28

you gre up in l A. You went to school in l A

40:32

in the Valley San Fernando Valley, North

40:34

Hollywood, all right, little know. In fact, Miles

40:37

is in a rap group with Shy La Buff called

40:41

It's called the Element Crew.

40:43

Yeah. People in this crew, it was me

40:46

Jay boy Low pro Shy.

40:49

Who was RAPPI? Oh my god, Rai,

40:52

Rabbi, Oh my god, Rabbi, I

40:54

said, joy already golden myself.

40:57

What was your name? I was just you're

41:00

really creative, you know. I just thought,

41:02

like, you know, it felt pretentious to me

41:04

because like I was already rapping, like I was like selling

41:06

cocaine in the hood, like a lot of my like right

41:09

weird light rapp lyrics for like about

41:11

gun playing like cocaine. Because

41:13

I was like exactly like growing up mad middle

41:16

class in the valley. I was like, yeah, man, like I'm tumbling

41:18

cane like maybe easy.

41:21

Um. You know, you struggle

41:23

to find your identity at that point, and you're like and

41:25

like when the very popular conception

41:28

of like blackness is like cocaine rappers

41:30

and meat right now? Uh?

41:33

Yeah? So yeah, I was just Miles because

41:35

I didn't want to be like you've been like kilometers

41:37

or something, yeah, or like prime I

41:39

used to I used to try and tag that back

41:42

in the day.

41:42

Amazon. No,

41:45

I should hit them with the one because

41:47

they weren't about that life in like two thousand one. So

41:49

what did How did your parents feel about you rapping? They

41:53

don't care. My dad's artists, you know, so

41:55

like they were always they both seem like very creative

41:57

people. You know. I'm so lucky because they

41:59

always all they did

42:01

would be like, what do whatever you want to

42:03

do? That's so different from

42:06

a typical or excuse me, the typical

42:09

immigrant parents. Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, look, I

42:11

had to get my grades right,

42:14

yeah, like that was without question,

42:16

but as they incentivized, like you'll get straight as you

42:18

have video games. Yes I

42:20

was. I was getting like hundred

42:22

and twos on tests. Yeah,

42:26

like we don't know how I did it. We don't know what you play growing

42:28

up? Everything everything role playing

42:30

games, puzzle games, fighting games,

42:32

like just you know, it's like a typical

42:34

teenager growing up in the New My my dad used

42:36

video games to kind of like keep me my sister's indoors.

42:39

So I played a lot of video games. Yeah, yeah, I play. Yeah,

42:41

Like, like I said, I've played it all, played

42:43

them all. That's interesting. My parents would not buy us

42:45

any video games, so we would go outside and play. I

42:48

mean we did play a lot when we were

42:50

growing up. And then my dad I think realized that like,

42:52

oh they can stay here and

42:54

just be at home. He

42:56

was like, yeah, I'm great. My dad was like, no, I don't

42:59

buy you game. You go outsign and entertain yourself.

43:01

Yeah. So like we were always just playing sports. We'll

43:03

see. Even when I was playing video

43:05

games, right, it was just like PlayStation was like

43:07

the most hype thing by the time. Like I was in

43:10

high school, so games

43:12

weren't like at that level where they are now there's like online

43:15

play where like literally waste. It was like Final

43:17

Fantasy and yeah, exactly, yeah

43:18

seven grade. I

43:21

think I'm going to buy the remastered version bin

43:24

Laden Fantasy.

43:28

That was that was that was? It wasn't that a

43:30

lie? Was not he had it. It was one of

43:32

the things on his said it was it

43:35

was like it wasn't it was like a fake thing. No,

43:38

No, I was saying that Brandon Wardell thing was

43:40

fake. It some myth busting for us.

43:42

Well, also just not even mythbusting.

43:45

Those videos came out like yeah way

43:47

after so anyway, uh,

43:50

our drive wasn't a myth. Hard

43:52

Drive was real. Yeah, and he did have loose change on there,

43:54

so uh yeah. And then what else?

43:57

But I did play outside a lot because I always wanted to

43:59

play like bast ball or ride my bikes

44:01

and just like you know, a

44:03

little firecrackers up by the l A River. So

44:05

you grew up in l A, which is already kind of

44:07

like I don't know, like more diverse than

44:09

other places. But when you were growing up, did you

44:11

feel like did people ask you like what you were

44:14

a lot or like like did they like,

44:16

yeah, uh,

44:20

I mean it's weird because like a lot of my I

44:22

guess yeah, as I started going out

44:24

into the world outside of like my school friends,

44:26

because like they just know, they just knew me,

44:28

so like I maybe had to explain my

44:31

ethnicity like in first grade one time

44:34

until eight until I got to high school, and they'd

44:36

be like, oh, you Filipino, homie. You could go and homie,

44:39

there's someone homie And I'm like, no, man,

44:42

black and Japanese, and I'm like, where do they hang out?

44:44

And they're like, you're the only one, and

44:47

then the Asians are like yeo, just Due is black. And then I go to

44:49

the black kids like Due is Asian, So

44:52

well, where do I alright kicking with the white

44:54

kids? Um No? But I actually

44:57

because I took like all my classes

44:59

were all over the place I was, I was accepted

45:01

by all. But yeah, there was always the some

45:03

people would just like automatically assume

45:05

I was Filipino because that's I mean, it's in the valley

45:08

to there are a lot of Filipino people, so like it's

45:10

uh yeah, and you got a public or private

45:13

to private school. That's interesting.

45:15

I don't know what's more open or what's more accepting,

45:17

public or private. I feel like, well, in l

45:19

A, the public schools are are trash. Like

45:22

not that anyone who goes to public school trash, like the

45:25

level of education, especially like where I was living in

45:27

the valley. I would either I could go to North Hollywood

45:29

High School. Um, but if I really wanted

45:31

to get like a good education out of the end

45:33

the Magnet program. Um. And

45:36

then at that point, like my

45:38

parents were pretty pretty focused

45:40

on keeping me like in like a

45:42

good school, so they put

45:44

me in like the cheapest private school that

45:46

was like the Catholic school that was all

45:48

over the place. Did you do you? What do

45:50

you do after high school? What I do after high school?

45:53

Once college? Where you go? Would

45:55

you study study history? History? Yes,

45:58

European history can

46:00

after your grandfather? Yeah, yeah,

46:02

well he was a philosophy dude. I did

46:04

take a couple of German Enlightenment philosophy classes

46:06

just kind of be like, oh, what is this? And I was like, yo, Philosophy's

46:09

way to cerebral for me. Um.

46:11

But yeah, like I took history because

46:13

when I got out of high school, I knew

46:15

I always wanted to do something like unorthodox,

46:17

Like I wasn't gonna be an accountant or a teacher

46:20

or like anything that required like a degree

46:23

for me to like get game fu apployment.

46:26

So I was like, I might as well

46:28

just study something like I like that way, I

46:30

won't just check the funk out and just be like whatever,

46:32

these are my classes, get it done. You

46:35

grew up in l A, and you still stayed in l A. You didn't

46:37

want to leave. All my friends were here, and I

46:39

knew that I was probably

46:41

going to do something in entertainment

46:44

industry thing out here, and

46:46

I think also, I was probably just more it was

46:48

comfortable too, and it was probably easier to do

46:51

parents house and like,

46:53

uh yeah, well then

46:56

I then I had like a look, you know on my little apartment

46:58

and I did, uh. The laundry was right a gross,

47:00

the hallway nice um. And I

47:02

lived right by KFC, and I used to look out my window

47:04

two people. This is such an aside. But the

47:06

weirdest thing is you see people go through the drive through and

47:08

then park immediately in the parking lot to eat their food.

47:11

Wait, yeah, I've done that. People do that a

47:13

lot. I was surprised. Yea. To me, it was very

47:15

foreign because like, yo, if you're going to drive, it's because

47:17

you're high and you're taking that ship home to eat it. Or

47:20

times you can't wait and you don't want to look at anyone, you

47:22

don't want to look at you. Yeah, I guess. And also

47:24

like I also just don't like to go into

47:26

a fast food restaurant like order at the counter,

47:29

like let me then

47:31

I'm like order all these things like I got I got kids in

47:33

the car. Man, it's not just for me, Like

47:36

I'm so smacked as people like this is

47:38

all for you, sir, but yeah,

47:40

I didn't. You know, it was interesting because I got to travel

47:43

a lot too, so I when

47:45

I wasn't in school, Like my mom took me to Japan.

47:47

Well, it's awesome and ud connection

47:49

with your family in Japan. Yeah, my mom was really

47:51

only Japanese. Oh yeah, I'm pretty fun because

47:55

your mom is the only Japanese in college.

47:57

Oh did you really did? Oh? Wow? Okay,

48:00

well do we want to switch to put

48:02

your podcast is subtitles

48:04

on hard? Oh?

48:06

I mean yeah, but it was it wasn't

48:08

good. I like learning it though, because I

48:11

grew up just hearing it, so I didn't have to really

48:13

learn it luckily, so like like, oh it's

48:15

so queer bilingual. I'm like, dude, they're just it's

48:17

not like I was like studying the ship. Yeah. It

48:20

was like when I was learning German,

48:22

I was like, God, learning a language is insane.

48:24

It's insane that like I just knew how to speak

48:26

Farsio second to

48:28

me, Like I don't even think about it. I can just speak it. And then

48:30

you're like out there trying to like do grammar and

48:33

and you're just like and then you go

48:35

to like when I go to Syria, I just start thinking in Arabic.

48:37

Yeah, and it's like crazy. And then my friend who

48:40

was she was trying to learn Arabic and UC

48:42

Davis. It was like all this even

48:45

me, it was like grammar and like all the stuff.

48:47

And I was like, I don't even think about this. Stuff was just in

48:49

my head. I just talked like yeah,

48:52

because you're like how do I do this? And You're like I have

48:54

never had It's

48:56

just instinctive. Get your kids talking.

49:00

But I do think it's when you learn

49:02

a language growing up. When you're bilingual growing

49:04

up, it's easier for you to learn other languages.

49:06

So like when I went when I went to Russia

49:09

a couple of summers ago, I just like you

49:11

pick it up showing to Russia. Was she

49:13

flipped? I don't know, you already

49:18

already kind of started leaning away. I

49:20

don't know what she did over there. Moscow

49:22

was your compromise this whole

49:24

time? Right

49:26

now? That's just like kimpossible. There was

49:28

like I

49:32

was at myself when I was leaving and I was like, oh, I

49:34

should just go on a safari or just become

49:37

complossive. Um,

49:39

but uh, it is no,

49:42

it's um. I think when you grow up bilingual.

49:44

You just pick it up easier, and I think everyone

49:47

should just grow up. Well, it's crazy because

49:49

in Syria and a lot of Middle Eastern countries,

49:51

you're it's required that

49:53

you learn English in French and German, but

49:55

here it's not even required that you learned Spanish,

49:57

which is ludicrous to me, like you have to be I

50:00

think it's in California, it's taught,

50:02

but it's not required. It isn't no

50:05

you can take you it's required to take a language,

50:07

but it's you. It's up your own. Choes German,

50:10

when I was in school, it was like

50:12

you can be in banned or you can be you can like

50:15

it was here, like in elementary school they

50:17

I think they teach some basic Spanish, like

50:19

in elementary schools here, we didn't learn anything.

50:22

If they have like immersion schools, which

50:24

you just feel everything in Spanish

50:26

in school. In high

50:28

school, I took Spanish, but they never taught language,

50:30

like it wasn't required anything. Isn't

50:33

that a shame? It's a shame. But then

50:35

you just pick it up from your friends anyway, Like

50:38

I've picked up Spanish biasmosis. Yeah,

50:40

but I mean we're also living in l A in southern California,

50:42

and I know, just like I can't functionally express myself,

50:44

I can like express my basic needs, like

50:47

conversational Spanish. But also you did you

50:49

were raised by linguals, so I do think it's easier

50:52

for you to pick it up. Oh yeah, And they say, well if you

50:54

if you accent wise, like people who speak

50:56

Spanish they speak Japanese, will be a really good

50:58

accent in japanes seulespeak Spanish

51:00

people because there's like a lot of r rolling and things like

51:02

the sounds are different, so it's weird. Sometimes

51:04

you'll see like Japanese people who like are struggling

51:07

with English bust into Spanish and you're

51:09

like, what, okay,

51:11

huh finessing accent. That's interesting,

51:14

that's a trip. Yeah, it's it's a really interesting thing to

51:16

the world. You know. Arabic is really similar to Russian.

51:18

It was the sounds. That's also Farsi

51:21

is very similar to French. Yeah you say mercy,

51:23

Yeah, a

51:25

lot of the same word. So when I was when I was in

51:28

in Russia and I was like trying to like speak

51:30

Russian to my friends, Russian friends, they were like, oh,

51:32

you're acting this great, And I was like thinking about

51:34

it. And it's because like you use the same muscles in your

51:36

throat and everything that the same, like like

51:39

glatteral glatteral

51:42

No, no no, no, there's there's certain like

51:45

like major s terms

51:47

for each part of your mouth and what you use it for.

51:49

But whatever. Um. Yeah, that's why my

51:51

French is so good, even though I don't speak like a single world

51:54

of France. I just know how to say jim up to

51:56

say croissant that.

52:02

Okay, here's thing about Miles, he's real dumb that

52:06

I can expect to lange. But like, yo, put

52:08

those French wards in front of me. So

52:20

after college, what do you do after college?

52:22

What did I do? Well? I real quick question

52:24

before that, your parents did not say anything

52:27

about what you majored in college. Yeah,

52:29

I was gonna ask that too, Like they weren't

52:31

like history, how's that going to make money? They're

52:33

just like make sure you take your ask to college. Okay,

52:35

that's all they They didn't care what you studied,

52:38

no, because they knew like I was always a weird

52:40

kid, like like making weird

52:42

videos and like making music, and

52:44

they're just like this kid isn't going to be some like buttoned

52:48

up so why were they So why

52:50

I'm just curious, but why did they want you to go to college?

52:52

Because they're like, your, look, you can try

52:54

and do all that and pursue your career, but if

52:57

you do not, you need a fallback plan, just like

52:59

and if your ask doesn't have college, you agree like in

53:01

the way the economy functions now. So they're

53:03

realistic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And

53:05

they're also just like go because you need to

53:07

just challenge your thinking. You'll meet other people.

53:09

It's just a good thing to do. Um.

53:12

So yeah, when I did that, they were like that's a good way

53:14

to see it. They were separated

53:16

at that time, they were separated, but like I

53:18

had always been in curas to go to college, like from the

53:20

beginning, from the beginning, from the beginning, So

53:23

yeah, they were They were just sort of like, you just

53:25

need a plan, like as long as you as long as you have a

53:27

backup plan of having a degree, like go pursue

53:29

whatever you want to do. Because they know, like I

53:32

think they trusted that I wouldn't like pursue something to the end

53:34

of the earth and then like be like, hey,

53:36

I'm still we're going to have rap album, don't

53:39

worried, like I know the sound

53:41

is mad dated now, but it's gonna

53:43

catch Like I think they knew. They're like, look it doesn't

53:45

work, then at least you can be a teacher, because

53:47

that was the other thing I I felt realistic

53:49

that I could do, Like I really haven't stuck to my

53:51

Like in high school, had this APUs history

53:54

teacher who totally

53:56

like opened my mind history and like how

53:58

important it is and how it can explain

54:01

nearly everything. Uh So I

54:04

just kind of I'm kind of like a very curious

54:06

person and I'm like, like a know it all. So

54:08

if you know history, you'd be able to trivia,

54:11

Yeah, a lot of trivia, Yeah, and just

54:13

bring up crosswords all the time,

54:15

and history comes in handy. So yeah, and you're like,

54:17

oh the Edict of Worms Yeah, like wow,

54:19

look at you. So yeah that

54:22

got me into it, and I thought like, oh well, at worst,

54:24

like I think I could live with being a history T shirt

54:25

because I can still like perform and

54:27

like get my opinion across too, just like

54:30

kids performed. That's kind of funny, Like

54:34

let's talking about Nicholas Biddle versus the banks.

54:38

Okay, what are those making?

54:41

Raps? Yeah? My biddle

54:43

for sure. Yeah,

54:46

so after you graduated. After graduated,

54:48

I worked at a like a T shirt store. Okay,

54:51

well, actually no, after I graduated, I

54:54

didn't do ship from a bit, you know what I mean.

54:56

I was just like loafing around, like being like, oh fun,

54:58

like post post grad press. It

55:00

wasn't even depression. I was just

55:02

so confused, like I just didn't know

55:04

what was going on, and it wasn't like

55:07

and it probably was a form of depression, but

55:09

I wasn't. I was never really down about anything.

55:11

I was just like, oh

55:14

yeah, like I felt like, you

55:16

know, like when you're in academia for so long, like your entire

55:18

life, and you're just like like rooted

55:20

out into the real world without that structure. It

55:23

was very interesting, like what I did with my time

55:25

at first, Like I'm not gonna get mad high

55:27

at eight in the morning and then watch

55:30

TV because yeah, until Morey comes

55:32

on. Then I'm like, okay, it's getting late to

55:36

eat, and then like maybe I all try

55:38

and like go like sell some weed or

55:40

something. It was just, yeah, it

55:42

was a very I was you

55:44

know, I didn't quite know if I wanted to go

55:46

after entertainment full force or what

55:49

and you know when you're young, I just felt like, oh, I have time

55:51

to like figure it out and like sort of really just progressed.

55:54

Your parents did say anything. They were just kind of letting you coast for

55:56

a little well for a minute. They

55:58

were like, look, we know because by that

56:00

time, like the economy was about

56:03

to fully crash, so like jobs

56:05

were not really like out there to just be like, hey,

56:07

I could be an intronet someone so company

56:09

because so much money. It was like very

56:11

different. So that was one thing that caused

56:14

a lot of uncertainty was the economy at that and

56:17

then so basically I was like, look, I

56:19

just gotta get my acid day job. Like either way. So

56:21

I worked at this place making like custom

56:23

T shirts like with like heat transfers,

56:25

and we would just do like it was so

56:29

many T shirts that I still have that, like

56:32

I look at one

56:34

is like I made one for my

56:36

friend Is said, don't believe the hype, but

56:38

it was in the shape of a cross

56:41

fixed. I was like, yeah, I mean, like I'm making statements

56:43

out of here. Other ones like I would just put like stupid

56:46

numbers like on the leg of sweatpant um.

56:49

It was cool because like my friends just bring over blanks

56:52

and I could be like, yeah, I can put anything on here because

56:54

we had numbers and things, so really sure.

56:57

Yeah, but like it wasn't I'm not really like the

56:59

best visual person like in terms of like

57:01

design, like I like video

57:03

and things like that, but like I'm not like a great design

57:05

like aesthetics kind of person. Um.

57:08

Yeah, So I did that for a little bit. My boss like

57:10

don did me so so dirty and my pacetecks were

57:12

bouncing. I was like it was trash.

57:14

Then I started doing like you know, peaying on

57:16

shows and ship like that, and then I started working

57:19

in politics, and my friend Ali

57:21

got me to work on like this ballot initiative

57:24

for clean energy, like

57:26

back in two thousand and eight, and

57:29

we were we were working on this thing called Proposition seven.

57:31

It was to get the energy mix up to like like

57:33

I don't know, I think fifty by kind

57:37

of thing, and we got crushed to ship

57:39

because like the yeah, the utilities just

57:41

outspent us in commercials and just like flamed

57:44

the campaign. And like that's when I

57:46

realized like whoa like because

57:48

the whole time was so idealistic. I was like, yeah, like this is

57:50

good, like this is clean energy, Like we can fight

57:52

global warming, Like it's very easy, like we

57:55

have to stop using coal. And then when

57:57

you get like just totally smushed out

57:59

by like the powers that be, Like that was my first

58:01

real lesson of like wow, like you can

58:03

actually be on the right side of an argument, but

58:06

because you just don't have the money, like

58:08

people can just completely change the narrative on you

58:11

wake up call. Yeah, it's it changes

58:13

your head a lot. And it was interesting because

58:15

that was also the year of Obama's election, so

58:18

it was like this, you know, I was very idealist,

58:20

like oh shit, like yeah we got yeah, well

58:23

yeah, I was like going to get rid of Queen of this

58:25

dirty energy. Nah. Well it

58:27

was a bitter sweet night, like our proposition

58:30

got smashed Obama one. And then I started

58:32

working for this political consulting from yeah,

58:35

doing like consulting like opo

58:38

research campaign stuff, so I

58:40

would have to travel to like work on

58:42

weird campaigns that like our donors would

58:44

be like we have to make sure this person stays in office,

58:47

uh, and go out there do some

58:50

you know, uh kind of

58:52

underhanded stuff. Like I had all kinds

58:54

of different business cards and just be like oh,

58:56

I'm from this organism actually the

58:59

class lobbyist, you know, classic

59:02

dark, dark girl. How did you feel about The Underside?

59:04

Thank you for smoking. I thought it was great,

59:08

beautiful movie. How long did you do that? Until

59:11

two thousand and eleven, and then he moved to comedy.

59:13

Then I moved to comedy. So like I was watching

59:15

the Vancouver Olympics in two thou and a two

59:17

thousand ten. I think at the beginning of two

59:19

thou and

59:21

I was just like I just saw so many inspired

59:24

athletes that I was like, man, I need to do more thing. So

59:27

I got into uh yeah, I

59:29

just knew I was going to do comedy and like politics

59:31

are not the thing anymore. That's interesting because you

59:33

came from progressive parents who were like, do what you

59:36

want, and then you got into like the one job that would

59:38

make any immigrant parents happy, which is like working

59:40

in politics. My mom loved

59:42

My mom loved it. She was telling people basically

59:44

I was an Obama like

59:48

so not even

59:51

close. She's like, you know he met

59:53

Nancy Pelosi, Like okay, well, it's

59:55

like my parents are like I met fucking like

59:57

like years ago. I was a p A for

59:59

the commercial with the who

1:00:02

is it that my mom was like obsessed with. She

1:00:06

loves James Franco. And I did the commercial and I

1:00:08

met James Franco and she told all

1:00:10

her friends I was like working with James Franco. And I was like,

1:00:12

I just call him lunch, Like what

1:00:15

is he like? Is he gonna put you in the next

1:00:18

movie? I

1:00:21

subway If I told my dad,

1:00:24

I was gonna like seriously, my dad is always

1:00:26

like, Anna, you must get into politics.

1:00:28

You are a great speaker. It's like I just

1:00:30

don't speak with an accent. Is your

1:00:32

point doesn't make me a great Yeah

1:00:35

you're speaking over But like

1:00:37

I struggle with remembering a lot

1:00:39

of very simple words like I mean

1:00:42

maybe you know. Unfortunately it is the amount of weed

1:00:44

I didn't take. It's really fucked my vocabulary

1:00:46

app over the years. But like I'm

1:00:48

not I'm no politician. Like

1:00:51

you can put me in a room, but I can also zone out

1:00:53

for twenty minutes not realize where.

1:00:58

Because my mom really wanted me to be for

1:01:00

a minute like the nextli Judge Judy. She

1:01:02

was like television. She

1:01:06

wanted me to do that because if my sister was a doctor,

1:01:08

she was like, this was going to be a lawyer. Yeah,

1:01:10

and a

1:01:13

superhero. It's like

1:01:15

and I

1:01:17

thought about it, and I did too. I was brandwashed

1:01:20

for a straight minute, being like, yeah, i'muna be a lawyer, like I was on

1:01:22

the debate team in high school, like using it.

1:01:25

One day, I was just like, hey, I'm

1:01:28

not going to be a lawyer. You know what. I realized

1:01:30

it. I looked up what law school entailed,

1:01:32

and I was like, I'm not doing this

1:01:34

like this. I think I realized it when I was like reading

1:01:36

like the debate arguments where you have to go and like pull

1:01:39

arguments, and I was just like this ship it was boring.

1:01:41

Yeah, I don't want anything. I looked

1:01:44

up I looked at what it meant to become a judge,

1:01:46

and it was just like, you're going to be in school for twenty

1:01:48

five years, and I'm like past hard,

1:01:51

passed school.

1:01:54

I'm glad I'm not in schools. People are

1:01:56

like reminiscent being like I miss being in school,

1:01:59

and I'm like no, like I couldn't teach

1:02:01

myself stuff Like I don't know, I'm not really

1:02:03

a fan of education system. Yeah, I kind

1:02:05

of realized, like I'm not like I'm not structured

1:02:07

for school and more of like get my hands dirty

1:02:10

out there doing bullshits. It works better,

1:02:12

I think. And people are wired different, Like I have friends

1:02:14

who just thrive in academia,

1:02:16

and those are people who typically do become doctors and

1:02:18

lawyers because but I

1:02:20

can keep this like school year round,

1:02:22

the school thing going great. You

1:02:24

put one of those people in like a high pressure situation

1:02:27

though that they are not structurally used

1:02:29

to, they get fucking yeah.

1:02:32

I like one of my best friends, Jenny, shout

1:02:34

out, Jenny, I know you're listening. Girl. She's a lawyer

1:02:36

for the a c LU right now, and remember when

1:02:38

she was graduating, she was graduating law school.

1:02:40

She's just being like, fun, do you do

1:02:42

out here now? Like getting

1:02:44

the job is hard? And I've been out here like yeah,

1:02:47

girl, Like yeah, I

1:02:49

don't want to drink you out,

1:02:53

I don't want to stress you out or anything, but like I

1:02:55

can't stress

1:03:01

my sister who's a doctor. And I came home literally

1:03:03

like last week and I had stolen on

1:03:05

one min this but I had stolen like just

1:03:07

like like a new bottle of soap

1:03:10

from one of these offices I went to just

1:03:13

out here like because

1:03:15

I was like, it's good soap as expensive. And I was

1:03:17

like my

1:03:19

sister like saw me when I came home and just like you still

1:03:22

soap, And I was like, yeah,

1:03:24

it's light down here. I was

1:03:26

like the victim of sine feeling

1:03:29

from corporate America's Okay, do you know what they're doing out there

1:03:31

to the little people? What would I say? Oh?

1:03:34

No, that's that's problematic. You shouldn't be doing it.

1:03:36

Stuff like that. Be caught up one day

1:03:39

whatever, Man, see your face on the news like

1:03:41

she stole a desk upretty her

1:03:44

podcast, find you get

1:03:46

clapped up, gonna be up on Twitter

1:03:49

being like your company's like Serena,

1:03:51

We've been listening to the podcast and we're

1:03:53

gonna need back

1:03:55

for that. Do not mentioned Meyer's soap

1:03:57

ever again? Wait,

1:03:59

how do you about? It was Myers girl?

1:04:05

Because you're like me, I was like, what's the gift? So like,

1:04:07

yeah, it was to the miners. Yeah,

1:04:11

where I got your back to a certain

1:04:13

extent, I needed

1:04:16

to find you soap. I'm not gonna go to I mean, like, if it's

1:04:18

there, whatever, man, I mean,

1:04:20

let Myers isn't that expensive? Like there are ways

1:04:22

it's like five Yeah, there are ones that are like crazy

1:04:25

like ones I've never heard of. But those ones are

1:04:27

so nice they don't even register to me. How

1:04:29

nice to me? Myers is the highest. I'm

1:04:31

like, I saw I saw this brand

1:04:33

that was like amazing at this place I

1:04:35

went to, and I was curious. Like weeks later, I

1:04:38

looked up the brand and it was like literally thirty dollars

1:04:40

for a bottle, and I was like, who buys this soap?

1:04:43

Like you have money to burn? Yeah,

1:04:45

I guess. So that's like the kind of like

1:04:47

that's what your parents want you to be at. Yeah,

1:04:49

like Judge Judy soap, You're

1:04:53

like, what, I don't even use it, just

1:04:55

drop it on the ground and somebody cleans it up. I'm

1:04:58

trying to give somebody a job clean this up.

1:05:00

Um damn. So

1:05:03

yeah, So your mom is from Japan, that

1:05:06

country that's has serious tansiance

1:05:08

with I'm from

1:05:10

Iran. I'm from serious. It all has some tansion

1:05:12

in our back hand man. One of my

1:05:14

my my best home girls in high school of Syrian shut

1:05:17

out to Melissa Hodep. Yeah I know her,

1:05:19

No, I don't like

1:05:22

what is the Twilight Zone theme song? Dude?

1:05:27

She comes right in. We're like miles we have

1:05:29

to speak to you that we all get burst up

1:05:31

into this space. I'm

1:05:33

literally associating at this point. Okay,

1:05:36

sorry, tensions with America. Yeah, so you're

1:05:38

from this country that current from

1:05:40

there, I'm American son. Okay, see what I mean, See

1:05:43

what I mean to these people, these people

1:05:50

breaking everything? Uh,

1:05:54

yes, anyway, but yes I am Japanese animal,

1:05:57

and I mean luckily and you know also parts

1:06:00

Native American. Damn that

1:06:03

you know what happened was, you know, after the

1:06:05

slaves are freed, Like there was a lot of mixing

1:06:07

between Native Americans and freed slaves. And

1:06:09

yeah, like you're talking about yes, he's

1:06:12

talking about sex. Yeah, sexing,

1:06:15

interracial sexing. Does

1:06:17

your dad look ethinicly ambiguous or does he like black?

1:06:20

Well, my grandma she's like on my they're

1:06:22

really light skin on my grandma's side, like they're create but

1:06:25

also like dark aside, like

1:06:28

her great great grandmother

1:06:31

was like raped by like her white school

1:06:33

teacher. So they're like so

1:06:37

when I get that twenty three and me like I will

1:06:39

see a little Caucasian and there that

1:06:42

Yeah, have you have you twenty three? Is

1:06:44

it? I mean, like

1:06:46

it's I don't know if it's worth the

1:06:49

money. I mean, like for me, I feel like it's

1:06:51

worth it. If I was expecting to learn

1:06:53

all this stuff about myself, and I did learn some stuff,

1:06:55

but it was like your Mexican, You're like what

1:06:58

I told me, I was like, like part of me is like like

1:07:01

like North African and then Turkish and

1:07:04

like East Umah.

1:07:09

It was like anything strange or anything. But it

1:07:11

was interesting because I've always known I was talking some tolerant

1:07:14

and it's like like my mom is too.

1:07:16

But I was like told me, I was like, don't

1:07:18

eat lactose, and I'm like, how does the Middle

1:07:20

Easterners tend to be LA tolerant like I had

1:07:22

to? Actually I couldn't. It's really

1:07:24

weird, Like I can't have like cold milk, What

1:07:28

do you mean cold? Yeah, I have to like drink hot

1:07:30

milk and I'll be fine. But most

1:07:32

other LA, I'm like some fairly

1:07:34

me and my mom were in my older

1:07:37

sister were like some fairy lacks and tolerant, like almost to

1:07:39

the point of an allergy, I would say. But it's

1:07:41

also it also told me that I was vit him in D deficient,

1:07:43

which is true because like me and my dad

1:07:45

are and it's Middle Easterners are also vit

1:07:47

him ind deficient like genetically sometimes.

1:07:50

So it's like it's like told him with some

1:07:52

stuff, and I think, if you have the money, you should

1:07:54

just do it. I don't know what company

1:07:56

is better, like it's or

1:07:59

whatever, but like either way

1:08:01

I know is having sale. Oh yeah, to do it

1:08:03

was just like spitting a little tube and send it back. So

1:08:05

and the mystery soft Yeah, so mysteries

1:08:08

you're black exactly you're black or who

1:08:10

knows what that what else? But yeah, so I've I've I think

1:08:12

I hit like the trifect of like

1:08:15

countries and people that have been Yeah,

1:08:18

have you got them all? You're an official

1:08:21

minority. Yeah exactly. I just need

1:08:23

to convert religions and I'll be like, you're

1:08:25

the model minority you ever considered

1:08:28

Islam? Yeah, what's good? I

1:08:30

love the food. I love the food, and I love the birthday

1:08:32

song. The birthday song.

1:08:37

You're a yeah,

1:08:42

Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, I don't mean to confuse the two, but I'm saying

1:08:44

yes. Uh, like I said, yes, I am open

1:08:46

to anything that's really fun, that's really

1:08:48

funny that yeah, yeah, it's raising

1:08:51

in l a. Yeah, Well shout out

1:08:53

to the dutch Town family who put me on

1:08:55

That's right, what are you telling me? Being Parjian

1:08:57

is about? Yeah, you were raised with

1:09:00

a Persian kid, Yeah, I grew up with Yeah,

1:09:03

like in high school too, that's and you have a

1:09:05

Serian friends a lot of Armenian

1:09:08

friends too. Because I played hockey, I was like I was

1:09:10

like the only Serian in my school, me

1:09:12

and my sisters. And then there were there're they were

1:09:14

family friends that came like years afterwards

1:09:16

that were younger. But when when we sister were in school, were

1:09:18

the only Serians? Yeah? Um?

1:09:23

Oh so sorry? Sorry? Uh

1:09:25

did you find that people are racist towards

1:09:27

Iranian in l A. No,

1:09:29

No you didn't. Because I had a friend who grew up on

1:09:31

the west in a weird way, like it would

1:09:33

be like it was always

1:09:35

about like driving a Mercedes. That

1:09:38

was like the thing to me.

1:09:40

That's what I mean, That's what I'm just saying, Like that would be the extent

1:09:43

of like someone using a stereotype

1:09:45

about someone's like are you rich but

1:09:49

today instead of a Mercedes. But

1:09:52

you didn't send any actual real angst.

1:09:54

Because I had a friend who was raised on the

1:09:56

West side, went to Hamilton's shout out Evan Davis probably

1:09:58

shouldn't shot him at about this, And he

1:10:01

was always telling me like yeah, like there was like this group

1:10:04

of like crew of like rich Persian kids who

1:10:06

would come to parties and then him and his friends would have to

1:10:08

fight them and kick them out because they were like two out of control

1:10:10

that some ship would go down, and there was like a real

1:10:13

like on the street like all shirts

1:10:15

on the

1:10:19

vibecaut is that there was like some like low

1:10:21

key just like racism towards Persians in l

1:10:23

A. Oh. I don't know if I've ever heard

1:10:26

that, though, I don't know, it's weird. I could be you

1:10:28

know, insulated. Maybe. Yeah. I for

1:10:31

the most part, I feel like Persians in l A are really

1:10:33

accepted and like really like they're

1:10:35

like part of the mix up of like the main

1:10:38

ethnicities that are in this Like

1:10:40

it's like Arabs are so similar

1:10:42

to Persians and we're out fucking I feel like

1:10:44

we're Persians are just far

1:10:47

more like liked for forever

1:10:49

reason. It's like Persians got West Westwood,

1:10:51

Arabs kind of got a little more like Glendale. Like

1:10:54

that's what I means, isn't

1:10:57

Yeah, I think then of

1:10:59

ours they

1:11:03

have. They, Yeah,

1:11:06

persons have unfortunately, well

1:11:08

all over the place in California. Yeah, um,

1:11:11

well what Arabs have? We have? No,

1:11:14

No Arabs have. What's that city

1:11:16

in um Michigan? Dearborn?

1:11:18

They have Dearborn Hard Deerborn

1:11:20

is a heavy Arab community. My dad was gonna

1:11:22

move when he moved here, he was deciding

1:11:24

where to move, and he went to Detroit and

1:11:26

then like, I don't know what kind of where

1:11:29

did you go up? I was born in Anaheim

1:11:31

and then I grew up a little. We moved

1:11:34

around a lot. We were not very well off,

1:11:36

so we moved around a lot in south in California,

1:11:38

like Westminster, Riverside, Corona. We

1:11:41

went back to Syria for a minute. Yeah,

1:11:43

we went back to Syria for a minute, and then we

1:11:45

came back here and I went to middle school

1:11:47

and high school in a little bit of at meentary school in San

1:11:50

Diego. Then meet animate and

1:11:52

you c. Davis. That's factual.

1:11:55

Yeah, but I grew up. I was raised

1:11:58

like an Orange County I like, I

1:12:00

have still have family like Orange County. So yeah,

1:12:02

city, good place.

1:12:05

I don't know what that is, Circle City, Corona,

1:12:07

Corona. Only for a minute, like my parents

1:12:10

had like an apartment in Corona and then Westminster

1:12:13

and uh yeah,

1:12:15

whatever didn't nice come up now?

1:12:17

That in San Diego. In San Diego,

1:12:20

like yeah, we started out there, but like my

1:12:23

dad tell you, his first

1:12:25

job was a grave rush at the gas station. Dude,

1:12:27

my dad to come to America worked in Chicago

1:12:30

straight like I al. He took me to like the corner

1:12:32

of where this gas station was, and I was like, you

1:12:34

worked here at night, you

1:12:37

know? And

1:12:40

then he like worked in like coal mines and then yeah

1:12:42

we got wrapped the s up. But yeah, my dad worked

1:12:44

every dame. It's like I was a truck driver in Wyoming

1:12:46

for a minute. Yeah, it's like Wyoming.

1:12:48

Why not Wyoming?

1:12:50

Why not? Told me like how we like really started

1:12:52

picking, Like how we like smoked weed for the first time. I was all these

1:12:54

truck drivers sitting around like passing the joint

1:12:57

back. My jack smoke weed.

1:13:00

So in

1:13:03

his face, my dad would love weed.

1:13:06

I think he would benefit so much for him, but he said,

1:13:08

chill the funk out. He My

1:13:10

god, I just I'm so envious

1:13:12

because he doesn't drink and smoke weed. Is very becos

1:13:15

at it as like as a Muslim

1:13:17

man. But my mom. My

1:13:21

mom asked me to get her weed chocolate when I went to

1:13:23

Colorado before it was legal here. She was like,

1:13:25

she was like, I want to try it, give me some chocolate.

1:13:27

And I was like okay, and she tried it

1:13:29

and she was like, well whatever, and then I was like,

1:13:33

please don't just let him get high like whatever.

1:13:35

But she wasn't into it. She was into it. I

1:13:38

think she just didn't eat that much. She's like, yo, I

1:13:40

ate everything in the house. Your fathers as some questions and

1:13:43

as you hate me that

1:13:45

really you guys talk about me behind your back fears my

1:13:49

fat. I was just like, damn,

1:13:51

mom, you ate too much again. Get

1:13:54

him a corova edible I need so I

1:13:57

just can't take one bite he'll be black because he has like

1:13:59

anxiety and and he like he

1:14:01

don't. I mean, like he's better now. But for

1:14:03

a while, I was like, you would benefit

1:14:05

from we get him the CBD then, so

1:14:07

it's not a psychoactive exactly anxious.

1:14:10

He would he would never. I don't think

1:14:12

he'd ever try it, just because he's like he

1:14:15

doesn't want to say he's ever done that, even though he smokes

1:14:17

cigarettes. So it's like he smokes cigarettes.

1:14:20

My girl, my whole family smokes cigarettes, and they

1:14:22

my parents don't only smoke like one or two times

1:14:24

a day. And so when it goes to the doctors that they tell

1:14:26

him that they don't smoke, and I was like, that's still kill

1:14:29

I'm not gonna lie, low key, I tell my doctor because

1:14:31

the one time I did tell a doctor a smoke, wool brought

1:14:33

it up every five minutes like I'm like, oh, I

1:14:36

was that. No one that smoke is a privilege,

1:14:38

not a doctor. Thanks for looking out for my well

1:14:40

fucking all

1:14:43

a sudden was showing up on my website charts

1:14:45

being like problem needs to stop smoking, Like

1:14:48

just sucking spread

1:14:51

now, I always just say not not smoker. He was fanning

1:14:54

into patch. I'm lying

1:14:56

about my health. That's really why I'm dying. Just

1:15:00

came together. I just I

1:15:02

can't believe we were talking for so long. I feel like this is

1:15:04

a really good conversation, but we have to wrap it up.

1:15:07

Time flies when you're having fun, and

1:15:10

Miles you were. You've been a great guest.

1:15:12

It's been so nice to learn about Youreciousness,

1:15:17

Precious, what a precious man.

1:15:19

Precious, thank you so much. Based on

1:15:21

the novel Push by Sapphire. Book

1:15:23

was about Miles and uh sorry

1:15:27

yeah, let's uh, let's let's

1:15:29

do this again. Let's do this again. Well we'll

1:15:31

see, let's stay fronts. I mean, y'all are going

1:15:33

to se each other tomorrow. So it's like, I am no choice.

1:15:36

Where can people find you? Miles? Oh wow, where

1:15:38

can people find me? I'm

1:15:41

everywhere. I'm parking lot.

1:15:45

If you just do that quick drive through

1:15:47

with you to the parking lot you turn. Um. Yeah, I'm on

1:15:49

social media Twitter, Instagram at Miles

1:15:51

of Gray and check out the daily Seitgeist.

1:15:53

Yes, I produced that, Miles, have

1:15:56

nothing to do with it, but listen to it anyway,

1:15:59

spund time, it's daily. We do

1:16:01

it every day. That's insane

1:16:04

time commitment. I'm just going to say that it's a lot

1:16:06

of work. It is, but we

1:16:08

somehow we do it. It's not as crazy as

1:16:10

it used to be. We're getting it. We're really getting the hang

1:16:12

of it now. That's great. Yeah, good for you,

1:16:14

guys, Thank you so much. Good for you, thank you so

1:16:16

much. It's really thank you for having me for

1:16:18

real, because like when I heard I think, I'm

1:16:20

like hello, just like he was trying

1:16:23

to get my attention for weeks. I'm like you,

1:16:29

you don't know, you don't know, kepting like Jack, you need to

1:16:31

tell this man that sits across wherever this looking

1:16:33

at is this the same guy from yesterday? It

1:16:36

looks black? Okay?

1:16:42

Uh wrote one last question, uh

1:16:45

or is your immigrant family very

1:16:47

affectionate? I

1:16:51

make them be affectionate, right, because

1:16:53

yeah, like Japanese people definitely,

1:16:57

like when you're a kid, they're like, oh yeah, like there

1:16:59

there's mada action, and then as you get older, like you

1:17:01

kind of just drift apart. But like I've really

1:17:03

made a point to like hug my mom and like

1:17:06

everyone else, even though they're like oh like sometimes

1:17:08

I'll like I'll hug my aunt in Japan and

1:17:10

she's like, oh my goodness.

1:17:15

It's like crazy, like they love it. It's like whoa

1:17:17

hug? So yeah, I I that's where

1:17:19

my American part, like I can't

1:17:22

like that. It's like that sure,

1:17:24

I don't want to, like I have to hug everybody

1:17:26

like that's my uncle's So that's

1:17:28

a good message. God on hug everybody loves

1:17:32

they're like weird and immigranty and like don't

1:17:34

touch me. I literally hugged

1:17:36

my grandfather. Don't touch anyone. Star are crying,

1:17:38

like to hug people,

1:17:40

you know and see and he cried and that's when

1:17:42

they realized. You're like, yeah, this is a good thing. Yeah,

1:17:45

even though like yeah, some people were just you know, culturally,

1:17:47

we're just kind of raised like and he's like he was like laughing

1:17:49

too. He was just like, what are you doing? And then like I

1:17:51

saw him later, his eyes were water and I was like, so

1:17:55

hug your fam. I love your fam and

1:17:58

listen to it. Yes,

1:18:00

so sure you can bite that ass. I bite that ass.

1:18:03

Bite em

1:18:08

hm