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Hello the Internet, and welcome to season

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one, fifty two, Episode three of Days

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Guys, the production of My Heart

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Radio. This is the podcast where we take a deep

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dive into America's shared consciousness

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and say, officially off the top,

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fuck the Coke Brothers, fuck Fox

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News, fuck Rush Limbob, fuck Ben Shapiro,

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f Carlson. And it

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is Wednesday. Fondanteur funded

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I like I like fondant because

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in the end we're just have terrible takes

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on cakes, so we might as well, you know, fancy

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it up cake takes. That's

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what they come come here for. It's

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Wednesday, September. My

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name is Jack O'Brien, a k where

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in my g string making

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my thigh see get

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rid of to simp because they're covered

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in oil wasted

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away again. And Dougerritaville.

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That is courtesy of Christie.

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I'm a gooch and I'm thrilled to be due.

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Dad's always buy my co host, Mr

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Miles gro I'm

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still so high.

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I Feel so High.

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That was one of my favorite pro

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jam songs ever. I just came up with that right now because

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I didn't have time to check Twitter. I stayed all in it

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today. But yeah, thank you to

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my brain and my sense of nineties in nostalgia

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and Eddie Vetter obviously for that. Yea, yeah,

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Well, we're thrilled to be joined in our

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third seat by the hilarious and talented

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Allison Rosan. Hello,

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thank you for having me here.

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Very excited to be here. I'm glad we

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so for people who have don't listen to will

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you accept this? Rose? Allison and I were on a recent

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episode of that with Arden, who was Monday's

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guests, and I'm like, let's just take it to the guest,

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let's just take it right, let's keep the pods coming,

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and then You've blessed us with your presence here on our

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second rate podcast, So thank you. Well,

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let's see if I if I stay the whole show here,

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at a certain point, I might be like,

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this is just so second rate.

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I only do top tier shows.

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But you but I am interested in

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talking about fond int or fondante. I

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feel like that bumps you guys up. Do you

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what's your feeling on fonding on cakes?

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Do you like them or is it just it's really for show?

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Is our feeling and we don't like it? Because

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do you feel like it's you feel like it's a lie

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sort of like like fake tits of frosting.

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It's not a work to eat. Yeah,

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it's like chewy. It's

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like putting skin on your on

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your cake. It one

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way to look at I am gonna

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come out in favor of it. I do

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feel like I do feel like occasionally

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I have tried to eat some and I'm like, oh,

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this is plastic. Maybe this isn't

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even edible. This is like you know that. But that shitty

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button candy where it's just

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like dots of I think

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they're called Yeah, no,

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that's another shitty candy. Think okay, oh yeah,

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wait, which what's what are the button candy is

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like you guys might be too young. Yes,

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it looks like paper from there

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from like an adding machine, like an

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analog adding machine. And then there's like a little

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like a scantron form. But it's like psychedelic.

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Yeah, yeah you candy.

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It has paper on it still, so that

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can be like fun. But I don't know if there's something

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magical about how shiny it is. They should

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call it rambow scantron candy. I

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did when I was picturing in my head, I

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was thinking of that candy.

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But I was calling it, dots. Dots are just the

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are like jelly uhmbles,

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Yeah, a little thimbles of jelly candy.

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Yeah, dots are supposed to be gum drops

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without This came up recently. My podcast

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is not about snacks. We just talk

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about snacks a lot. Uh and

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came up on the show because we were I was pulling

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people to find out do you think that they're awful or

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good? And I was shocked at how many people

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love dots. I've literally never

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met someone until all of a sudden,

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all these dot fans came out of the woodwork.

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Yeah, I don't

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I don't trust them. I think. I think that's a great

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first question. We usually open up

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asking our guests what their search history is an overrid

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under it. I think we're going to start asking start

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by asking them what their feelings are

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on dots. It tells you a lot about

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I mean that should be something that's in like a dating

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profile. Ye, yes, yes,

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because it's a deal breaker kind of question. It's

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sort of what's indicative of like what brings

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someone pleasure? You know? I think

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when you're some like whoa that I

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don't know? Then I don't know if we're speaking the same language

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anymore, exactly. All

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right, we are going to get to know you a

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little bit better in a second, Alison. First, we're

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going to tell our listeners a few of the

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things we're talking about. We're gonna

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talk about the Supreme Court vacancy.

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Pet Toomey is probably the

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senator who seals it. Um, we'll

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we'll see. We also have you know, Romney,

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they're they're in competition to see who seals

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it. Either way, we're fucked. It's weird, like because

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even yeah, it's it's still anything twenty

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you know alien could you

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know Independence Day the capital and

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we'd be like, yeah, I don't know. I guess

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seem hopeful for like a second,

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I feel like there was like a day where it's like, oh,

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maybe they'll actually be able to you

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know, maybe the Republican We're not supposed to talk about

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this yet, right, if we just talked about later, it's fine, that's fine,

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Yeah, let's talk about it later, but yeah,

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like maybe tomorrow. Let's just ignore this overwhelming

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all right, let's talk some dots though. Huh, We're

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gonna ask the question who could it be?

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Now? Uh,

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it's looking like Amy Coney Barrett. Uh,

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depending on how much

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they are willing to dig into

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the people of these group. We're gonna talk

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about that, the group she's a part of

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that is the

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inspirational Yeah,

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we'll talk we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the

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inspiration for a Prestige TV show,

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which one you'll

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find out. Uh,

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We're gonna talk about the COVID nineteen death

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toll. We're gonna talk about I won't tell you

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what milestone it's past, but it

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sure has past milestone. We're

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gonna talk about foods that changed

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when we weren't looking. Uh. General

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Mills sort of told on themselves about some

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of our childhood cereals. So we'll talk about that. We'll

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talk about that's not as

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good as they used to be, talking about the finsen

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leak. Uh, We'll talk about

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junk food advertising

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during the pandemic, all of that plenty more.

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But first, Alison, we like task our

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guests, what is something from your search history that

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is revealing about who you are? Um?

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Okay, So, uh my

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search was portable Notebook

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AD nineteen nineties and

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this was one of like fourteen

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hundred similar searches. I also did

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Portable brother AD nineteen eighties.

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Portable typewriter AD

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nineteen eighties, nineteen nineties. I could

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not find what I was looking for. The reason I was looking for

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this is the aforementioned art and marine

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who was just on my podcast.

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She and I on email. We're

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talking about a book that I

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want to write, UM, and she's

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sort of been helping me just I don't

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know. She's been trying to motivate me to like just

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do it, just put it on paper, and

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I feel like the blank

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page is daunting, and I feel like

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I just I just want

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to leave it in my brain to like marinate

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right now, which is really just me being lazy. I don't

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feel like sitting in front of my computer. And I was saying,

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like, I think my computer is intimidating

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me right now. I need one of those portable

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typewriters from the ADS in seventeen

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way back when where like you could take it on train. And

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I said more details about the AD that I was talking

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about, UM, but I wasn't

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sure if she would remember what I meant.

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So then I was trying to find an image of this

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AD, and UM,

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I can't find it. I am left now

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to wonder did I invent

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this. This is like oftentimes this will happened

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to me where I'm like, there was an episode of Facts of Life

8:21

that was a takeoff of Twilight

8:24

Zone, Right, that's so weird, though did

8:26

I imagine that? And I did not imagine? It is

8:28

called Seven Little Indians. So anyway, there

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was like I feel like it was sort of like a smart

8:33

typewriter or something. It was like a Dell

8:35

typewriter, but it had some kind

8:37

of computer aspect of it, and

8:41

it was I don't I don't think it was the eighties. I think it was

8:43

the nineties, and it was in either like seventeen magazine

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or Sassy. I read all those magazines, Sassy magazines,

8:48

and they would show two different people

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using this like I don't know if it was IBM

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or Toshibra. I don't know what brother or Dell or

8:55

what it was, but two different people

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and like how it would be incorporated into their

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life, and it was on one page and it was split down

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the middle, and like one person took it on the train and they

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did the other one like went to a cafe. I

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cannot I cannot find it. So some

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pro sure it's not the Macintosh one what

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you're describing is more like I would call like a

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word processor,

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right, because that's what they would

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call him back then, when like it was a typewriter,

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like but it had this little tiny screen on

9:23

it, so it's kind of like a computer. So maybe

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search word pro. I don't know, you're

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used to type like her like movie

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articles, like when she was critiquing films

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like on one of those, and I was just like, what the funk is

9:37

this thing? It's so weird, and I think

9:39

that's the smallest screen. But yeah,

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word pro was the wave of the future.

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Well in Japanese you call which

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is a so you just

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just basically short condensed it, so as

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you're like, yeah, that's that whapro right there,

9:53

Maybe I should have searched yeah,

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or word processor ad whatever. But yeah, if there's

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any type of st or enthusiasts,

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archivists, historians, please please holler

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at Allison that. So

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initially when I typed like portable typewriter

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AD, these really old

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vintage ads were coming up

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and I was like this is not at all, like

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yes, yeah, yeah, well the first

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time that they sold typewriters

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that weren't bolted down to like the

10:23

house that you lived in, right, they

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did used to be Remember my parents had

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them. They each had one like his and hers. They

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probably like a wedding present or something. And they came in

10:33

these like big almost suitcases

10:35

that you would carry them around, and I'm sure they

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were super heavy, right yeah, yeah,

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No. I remember the typewriter my

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family had when I was growing up came

10:44

in like a suitcase thing. Um,

10:47

also a personal defense

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weapon. Yeah.

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What is something you think is overrated? Oh?

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I wrote down two of them. One

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is more frivolous us and one is a

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little No, I'll do the Okay, I'll do the more serious

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one. Um. I personally think

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doing things really young

11:08

and being advanced is overrated.

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I was in I wasn't like doogie

11:13

howser or anything. I was just your average kind

11:16

of like accelerated kid. I was, you

11:18

know, in AP classes I was taking. So

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I was taking some college classes in high school, some high school

11:22

classes in eighth grade, and

11:26

it I always it just felt like

11:29

extra pressure. I feel like most

11:31

if you're gonna, if you have the ability

11:33

to to do those subjects, you

11:35

eventually will get to them. What is the rush?

11:38

And then also I

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wrote for the l A Times when I was eighteen,

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which was like a real big feather in my cap, you know,

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I was. I started writing when I was in high

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school, and I for the longest

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time, I was like the youngest person in

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any situation I was in, and

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so much of my identity was

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kind of shaped around this idea of

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like being the I'm

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so young to be doing X y Z. But

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the problem with that. Yeah

12:05

again, I don't mean, I don't want to paint myself out as like

12:07

I didn't graduate Harvard at

12:08

eight at four, I didn't. I also

12:10

didn't go to Harvard, but I wasn't like one of those

12:12

people, but I was, you know,

12:16

younger than everyone Cameron Crow

12:18

of the l A Times, you know. Um.

12:21

But the problem with that is it doesn't last

12:23

and then, uh, you know, eventually

12:26

all of a sudden you're the same age as everyone, and then all of

12:28

a sudden everyone's younger than you, and

12:30

it can mess you up. So I

12:33

just think that whole thing is overrated

12:35

because it sets you up to then have

12:37

trouble transitioning into like just being

12:40

of average as adult

12:42

mediocrity. Yeah.

12:47

Yeah. My wife was

12:49

a like musical prodigy

12:52

when she was young, and I think it like totally

12:54

turned her off of music. She

12:57

she's like playing Carnegie Hall and

12:59

she was like seven, and wow,

13:02

the whole trick was like, she look how young

13:05

a flee circus, just a ccus.

13:12

She was an amazing musician. But

13:14

then there's actually a chicken playing a piano

13:16

behind her. That's

13:18

the real gag. And they didn't even but

13:22

I remember her friends from high school

13:24

when they met me, they were like, you haven't seen her play

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like the piano or the violin

13:29

because she's just like kind

13:32

of got burnt out early. I think that also

13:34

happens, right, And also

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I feel like that one relates to people

13:39

right now who feel like

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their life is stalled because of

13:43

the pandemic, which I think is everyone. And

13:46

also if you have kids doing remote learning

13:48

and all that, and these concerns about like what's going

13:50

to happen they're off track, Um,

13:53

it'll be okay, Yeah, they'll figure

13:55

it out. Yeah. Yeah. I think you have young

13:57

children too, write I do. Yeah, I have a

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three and a half year old and a one and a half year old. Yeah,

14:02

I have a and

14:05

yeah yeah they're so they're like the same ages.

14:07

It is tough. One of the best things

14:09

I heard early on was like when

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we were worried about our older

14:14

boy like being potty trained, and

14:17

one of these child experts

14:20

was like, yeah, you know what, I don't

14:22

know too many kids who like got to high school

14:24

and still we're not potty trained. You'll be fine.

14:26

And I was like, Okay, that's yeah, that's

14:29

a longer time frame. I feel bad. Now what

14:32

what high school? Yeah?

14:35

Have you? Did you not get

14:37

it by then? I mean college. Definitely

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actually went back towards in college

14:42

because I was drinking so much. But I just well,

14:44

to Allison's point, I think doing things

14:46

so early is a little over I'm

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still I'm still on my potty

14:52

journey right right, But you have pull

14:54

ups and that's I've always been impressed by

14:56

that. Yeah, well they're fucking sick as fun because

14:58

they have like I got him in like this miner prints. Now,

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Alison, what is something you think is underrated? Oh?

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Um, I feel like this is a real basic

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kind of thing. But I think just one of

15:10

those heat pads that you plug in is

15:13

underrated. I think not enough people talk

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about loving a heat

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pad. Every night, I

15:21

plug mine in, I turn it up,

15:23

and I get in bed and I

15:25

put it on my abdomen,

15:28

but really I could put it anywhere and I feel

15:30

super snugly and comfy

15:33

and cozy, and it like instantly relaxes

15:35

me. Now, some people don't like to be warm,

15:38

but I do. And I find that it's

15:40

just like, um, sometimes

15:42

if I'm feeling super stressed, I'll just

15:44

turn on this is painting such

15:47

a pathetic picture of me. But

15:49

I also enjoy an electric

15:52

heat electric heated throw and I'll

15:54

just sometimes back in the day

15:56

when I traveled, I would even travel with it.

15:58

Um. I just find it totally makes

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me feel secure and relaxed. It's

16:03

like a weighted blanket. I was gonna say, do you like

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a weighted blanket too? I

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don't own one.

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No, but that's the thing. I've been told that it's

16:14

like that, and I don't. I'm kind

16:16

of neutral on the lead.

16:19

April, right, you're more about here a heat person

16:21

less yeah, heat person,

16:23

less of a weight person. But full

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disclosure, I was supposed

16:28

to receive a weighted

16:31

blanket because they were a sponsor on

16:33

my show, and it accidentally got sent to

16:35

the wrong office, and then I was told it would be forwarded

16:38

to me, and it never was, I imagine

16:40

because the postage of a weighted blanket is

16:42

just too much. Yeah,

16:46

what do you want me to do with this? How

16:49

do you guys feel about them? I

16:52

like, I love a weighted blanket. One

16:54

of my cats peed on it recently, so I

16:56

gotta do a whole thing there to

16:59

remove that wonderful scent.

17:02

But I love it. We also, full

17:04

disclosure, we didn't add for one as well,

17:06

and I love a dental X

17:08

ray. I love you

17:10

know all of I just love the feeling

17:13

of it. You just want to crush my chest. I think

17:15

I made a crucible reference when we were doing the add.

17:18

I think one of one of the things that they asked us

17:21

not tempa size, But I think I can talk about

17:23

now great babysitter for children

17:25

who are like one

17:27

to two. You just like throw that

17:29

thing on top of that and they're they're good.

17:32

Yeah, they'll eventually fall asleep, they get took.

17:35

Am I right? You guys are a weighted

17:38

blanket podcast? Right? Am I right? That

17:40

they are kind of all small though? Or

17:44

is it like full body size? Full body

17:46

full body the one we did, Yeah, and I got

17:48

I kind of I went a little too

17:50

overboard with the weight to the point where I was like,

17:55

it's comfy, but a little

17:57

too much, Like my partner was like trying

17:59

to get it office like you weren't breathing, and I was like, it

18:04

was a it was a lot. But the thing about

18:07

that I love them in Japan, we

18:09

we keep talking about Japan is like heated carpets are

18:11

thing in the winter where you'd put this basically

18:14

throw like carpet sized heating

18:16

pad underneath your carpet, so like because you

18:18

slid on the floor a lot in Japan, so

18:20

you just have this nice heated carpet

18:23

I want to have. I want to bring that vibe like

18:25

to my home, but it's just so hot,

18:27

like there's no need for it, but there's just something comforting

18:29

about just like laying on an entirely hot

18:32

rug too. Yeah. I love that.

18:35

Yeah. And laws

18:37

who are Korean are way into heated

18:40

blankets, heated everything. I've noticed

18:42

that just like overseas, like

18:45

heated tal rax are almost like very

18:49

common, like much more common. I think heated

18:51

things just in general or are less

18:54

common in the United States. And it's

18:56

just how cultured, elegant

18:59

and um worldly I am.

19:01

And I didn't even know exactly

19:03

exactly what

19:07

is something people think it's true, you know, to

19:09

be false or vice versa something

19:12

false. I

19:14

think there's this idea. I okay,

19:17

I had this idea that

19:20

in order to get pregnant, all

19:22

you have to do is stop

19:24

preventing pregnancy. I

19:26

uh, you know, dare and

19:29

and sex d and save sex and

19:31

all. That was so like

19:35

beaten into my brain. Um

19:37

that sounds more violent, but I just mean I grew I

19:39

grew up so afraid of all

19:41

the things that come with sex that I was like, so,

19:45

you know, I didn't the idea of not practicing safe

19:47

sex was just I couldn't even imagine it. Like

19:50

the first time I had sex, I took a pregnancy

19:52

test even though we also used condoms. Um,

19:55

this is too much information, but I just was so afraid

19:57

of it. Um. I really expected

19:59

that like the minute I try to get pregnant, I

20:01

will get pregnant, because it's you

20:04

know, and for me it

20:07

was so much more difficult. I didn't even

20:09

consider the idea that it might be that

20:12

it just isn't going to be super

20:14

easy. And we I've been very public

20:16

about it on my show. We ended up doing IBF

20:19

for both my kids. So it took a whole team of

20:21

scientists and a lot of money in order for me

20:23

to get pregnant. So that I

20:25

don't want to be here. I don't less

20:28

anyone young listen to be listening

20:30

to this. It might be super

20:33

easy for you to get pregnant, so

20:35

it's still is easy for a lot of people. For me

20:37

it was not. Yeah, and

20:40

judging from the standing room only crowd

20:42

at the fertility clinic, for a lot of women, it is

20:44

not right. Yeah,

20:47

the those like

20:49

sex abstinence talks that because

20:51

I want to like a Lutheran like middle school,

20:54

where first of all they showed was the most

20:56

dated fucking footage

20:59

of anything, Like I didn't know what my

21:01

own penis looked like based on what they were showing,

21:03

I was, what the funk is this? It looks

21:05

at a cross section of like a pringles can,

21:08

and I'm like, I don't know what the folk we're looking at.

21:10

So they did us a disservice there, and

21:12

then I think but also like the big

21:14

like awareness around safe sex also

21:17

kind of put swung my pens on the other

21:19

way where I was very concerned about

21:21

like any kind of sexually transmitted diseases

21:23

and things like that that I was always like, no, we always

21:25

were condoms. I was like, my friends whould

21:28

like even in college, they would be in committed

21:30

relationships and like not using condoms.

21:32

I'm like, okay, yeah, good luck,

21:34

bro, We'll see how that goes. And like we've been together

21:37

for three years and uh, well

21:39

I still have this teacher's voice ringing in my ear that

21:41

all it takes is one time. Um,

21:44

all right, guys, let's take a quick break

21:47

and we'll be right back to talk about the news.

21:59

And we're back, and the

22:02

Republican Integrity

22:05

Watch has has

22:07

officially completed. We know officially

22:10

there won't be enough Republican Senators

22:14

to stick to their

22:16

policy on whether a

22:18

Supreme Court justice should be confirmed

22:20

in a election year. Well, because last

22:22

time it was different because there was a Democratic

22:24

president and then a Republican Senate.

22:27

So now that it's a Republican Senate and

22:29

a Republican presidency,

22:32

that's why this time is different. Uh,

22:36

you know logical explanations I've heard, right,

22:39

which is like playing

22:42

monopoly with someone and

22:44

all of a sudden they just reach over and

22:46

they grab some of your monopoly

22:49

money. And I'm like Oh yeah, we have a rule where

22:51

thirty seven minutes into the game, we just

22:53

all take six hundred of your dollars

22:56

um. Didn't you know about it? Like that to me, like, does

22:58

anyone believe that this is a rule

23:00

or that this is precedent because it's never

23:02

been precedent previously. Well,

23:06

this is where like our tools of using

23:08

historical references and precedents

23:10

are just ineffective against

23:13

the opposition. They don't they don't

23:15

care. They're like, look, the problem

23:17

is mathematically, you know, I'm

23:19

speaking as a GOP. They're saying, we don't

23:22

have enough fucking people that believe in

23:24

our mess of a platform because so

23:26

racist and hateful that we all we

23:28

can do is suppress the funk out of the

23:30

vote and rely on this completely

23:32

imbalanced system of representation to use

23:34

minority rule to just hammer through the most

23:37

fucked things. So, yeah, we're gonna do whatever

23:39

the funk we can at any point, because

23:41

it's it's a cornered animal, like

23:43

it's it's in a fight for its life at

23:45

every point. And Democrats are always sort of

23:47

like, yeah, well wow, I mean Lindsey

23:50

Graham said we should use his words against him,

23:52

and yep, check this out cut to he

23:54

doesn't give a fuck, So what now? Like

23:57

all all this I think really needs to signal to

23:59

people is that they're like the rules are

24:01

completely gone, um,

24:03

and that things actually need to happen

24:05

in terms of addressing

24:07

these kinds of like just completely bad

24:10

faith maneuvers from from

24:12

the GOP right. I do think

24:14

Democrats get

24:17

a bit distracted by these

24:20

arguments and then attempt to dismantle

24:22

them as and then that's just sort of

24:24

like getting distracted by this shiny thing over

24:26

here when I and I it does

24:28

seem that way. They're they're going to do it if they can.

24:31

They did it because they could back in two thousand and

24:33

sixteen, and they're going to do it because they can now, and

24:35

it is Yeah,

24:39

it's I mean to your point, Miles, they

24:41

they're fully aware that they are the

24:44

minority in a democratic, uh

24:47

institution, and so they have this insurgency

24:49

mentality where they are just always looking for

24:52

ways to cheat the system.

24:54

Um. I guess my question would

24:57

be the only thing that's left,

24:59

because I is under no pretense

25:02

that they were going to not move

25:05

forward, is like will this hurt them politically?

25:08

Like will the people the

25:10

independents who are like,

25:13

yeah, sometimes I vote Republicans, sometimes I vote

25:15

Democrat. Like see this and

25:17

just I mean it's it's wrong, right,

25:20

Like it's yeah, if

25:23

anything, like Democrats just be like, this is why

25:25

you can't trust these fucking people. They're despicable,

25:27

like and just let that be. It be like this is

25:30

despicable. I don't I don't need to talk about their hypocrisy.

25:32

They've proven how craven they are, so there's

25:35

no point in like trying to convince a Republican

25:37

voter. They're like, hey, can you believe how hypocritical

25:40

this entire party you've been supporting, like through

25:42

thick and thin? Is it? Like they don't care. They

25:44

have their endgame of this, like ethno state

25:47

with you know, Christianity at the top

25:49

and like sis hit people like ruling

25:52

the entire globe. But regardless

25:54

of what happens, you know, even if Democrats

25:56

can stall something out and they

25:59

aren't able to get an anything done before January,

26:02

we have to add seats to the Supreme

26:04

Court. I mean that's like pretty much the only way

26:06

to to try and level this because

26:09

you have lifetime appointments and even

26:11

if you know, let's say Biden gets in

26:13

and they're still able to block

26:16

someone that block the Republicans from philling

26:18

Ginsburg seat, and then they put a liberal

26:20

justice in there, you still have a

26:23

conservative leaning Supreme Court that

26:25

will be more than happy to obstruct

26:27

any of the policy goals that the Abiden

26:30

administration would have, just because

26:32

that's what the Supreme Court is there for. It's like, if

26:34

you argue and sue enough, you'll eventually

26:37

find your way in d c. And be in front

26:39

of a Supreme Court that's more than willing to help.

26:42

Yeah, you know, I've seen

26:44

the argument made that, well, once the

26:47

Republicans are back in power, that

26:49

they'll just add more until it's like

26:52

handmade's tale basically, and you

26:54

know they're there's just like thirty

26:57

Supreme Court justices and we just keep more

27:00

and more justice arms race will

27:02

be more people on the court then there are not, right

27:06

then there are like Congress people like

27:08

okay, we have six hundred six

27:12

Supreme Court justices now. But

27:15

I mean, but that's to your point, Like I

27:17

feel, if you're a Republican, you've got to think like, if

27:19

we don't do this, like we're we could

27:21

be done unless Democrats still want

27:23

to be humane with us, even though we've

27:25

been so inhumane with everything

27:28

constantly. But I still feel,

27:30

like, you know, Joe Biden, in his heart, he

27:32

still feels like there's like that bipartisan

27:34

thing that can still happen, even though they've

27:37

fully taken their masks off and they're like, we're not

27:39

really here for that. We just we're just

27:41

grinding this thing out till the wheels completely blow

27:43

off. It's interesting, Miles, the way you

27:46

describe the Republicans um

27:48

as a cornered animal. That

27:51

appeals to me because I see them more

27:53

as um a behemoth. No.

27:57

I mean, it's so desperate. You know, before

27:59

it is easy when you know the

28:02

stock market was doing great and they didn't

28:04

they could do everything behind this veneer

28:06

of like being proper. But now

28:09

their idea like the heat has just been

28:11

on, Like it's just I've been saying, it's like a stew

28:13

that's just been reducing and reducing

28:16

and reducing and all that. It's now we're

28:18

just you've burnt off any of the people

28:20

who were with it when it was more like this sort of apple

28:22

pie, white picket fence idea of

28:24

like American conservatives, and now

28:27

it's been boiled down to like now we're

28:29

looking for we're more like reconstruction Jim

28:31

Crow type people, and that's

28:33

kind of the vibe. And because of that, yeah, numerically,

28:37

yeah, and you're just outnumbered and

28:40

you're only dealing with the most hardcore now.

28:42

And because numerically you are at a disadvantage,

28:44

like absolutely, like you, they're their

28:46

backs are to the wall, and that's why everything is

28:49

so just awful, because

28:52

that's sort of you know, when you're at the end

28:54

of your you know, at the end of the road, we're

28:56

going to I think this is the end of the road for them. Like again

28:58

I said, this is very appealing to me because

29:03

they are going to grab

29:05

power and have power for a while. And

29:08

that's what scares me. So you know, what I

29:10

mean to say is that it's not that they're gonna vanish

29:12

and then we'll never hear from them again. It's just that

29:14

they are unable to with the way

29:17

the you know, society is moving

29:19

and what is becoming more normal and who

29:21

how we think of humanity that

29:24

their party just isn't going to augment

29:26

their numbers at any So

29:29

in that sense, there's a desperation because

29:31

the ideology has gone completely flat

29:33

and it's no longer inviting more people into

29:35

it. They will absolutely be

29:37

able to find two ways to stay in power

29:39

because they're willing to go to depths.

29:42

Most people didn't think anyone would, but

29:45

that's where we're at. So yeah, I mean not to

29:47

say, I mean, I wish it was something like you

29:49

know, Wicked Witch scenario and and

29:51

the Wizard of Oz and it's just like but

29:54

yeah, it's just more that you're like, oh, they're desperate,

29:56

and there's nothing more dangerous than you

29:59

know, a cat like trying to avoid going

30:01

into a bathtub, like and this cat

30:03

has like a ton of like adamantium

30:05

claws and like fucking weed whackers

30:08

attached to it. So it's like, fuck that

30:11

cattle piss on your weighted blanket. Yeah,

30:13

oh you already did. Yeah.

30:17

I think the fact that

30:19

they combine the

30:21

aspects of a behemoth with the aspects

30:23

of a cornered animal is what's so

30:26

scary to your point, Allison, like they

30:28

are they are acting desperately

30:30

and also have like

30:33

three of the four major

30:35

governing bodies in the United States with the

30:37

Supreme Court, Senate, and Presidency.

30:39

So like yeah, it's like the same

30:41

thing with We've had death cults

30:44

before in the United States. We've never had a death

30:46

cult where the messiah is Trump,

30:48

like with Q and On, it's where the messiah

30:51

is the president of the United States. There's

30:53

like a lot of unprecedented

30:55

things that I think could lead to unprecedented

30:59

uh, you know, fascism in the United

31:01

States, where they just like grab the power

31:04

because they can or

31:06

because there's they're scared of losing

31:08

it. I had a dream

31:11

last night that I was talking

31:13

I think it was like at Starbucks or something, and I was

31:15

talking to someone and the woman behind

31:17

the counter said something um

31:20

about Stalin and about

31:22

the direction the Democrats want to take this country,

31:24

and I was like, okay, well it's very clear to me that we

31:26

are opposed politically and blah blah blah.

31:28

And anyway, I ended up having this conversation

31:31

with her about like communism and

31:33

fascism, and I woke up and I was like, holy

31:36

sh it, like my stupid Twitter

31:38

fights are invading my dream

31:41

and I don't even get a respite from it when I'm asleep.

31:44

Yeah, no, it's uh,

31:46

and it's not going anywhere. That's why I wasn't on Twitter

31:48

today. I'm like, after

31:51

watching the Social Dilemma, I'm like, yeah, right,

31:53

the only way I can actually rest control

31:56

over this thing is to disengage from the

31:59

fucking like whatever. It's

32:01

like the ring of power, like it suddenly

32:03

it's it's like whispering to you, and you're

32:05

like, fuck, let me horor myself

32:08

by opening it. And

32:10

that's I think when I started seeing like how I

32:12

was like almost exhaling,

32:15

like I was about to lift weights before I

32:17

opened like a social media application,

32:20

I was like, oh my god, like I

32:22

was, I was stealing myself to use

32:24

an application where I'm interacting,

32:26

and I'm like, no, that's that's fun. That's fucked

32:29

right. Well, let's look at just how

32:31

far from the kind

32:33

of down the middle democratic beliefs

32:36

of this country the

32:38

Republicans have gone with

32:41

the leading candidate for Trump's Supreme

32:43

Court pick, Amy Coney Barrett

32:46

um. So. She's affiliated

32:48

with a type of Christianity,

32:52

type of Catholicism called the

32:55

Charismatic Movement UM and

32:57

specifically she come

33:00

from like a family, like

33:02

a lineage that is heavily involved

33:04

in the People of Praise group. I

33:07

think they said her father and her

33:09

husband's father were both like

33:11

leaders in this organization and they

33:14

continue to be uh involved

33:16

in it. That also they're good, they're involved

33:18

in the church, right, so the people

33:21

praise group. Uh.

33:23

So they have heads and handmaids.

33:26

Um, this is actually

33:29

the actual inspiration for uh

33:32

Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale.

33:34

Like she had when the New Yorker

33:37

went and interviewed her, and she like showed

33:39

them some of the documents from when

33:41

she was brainstorming the Handmaid's Tale. Uh,

33:44

she had an article about this group underlined

33:47

with like handmaids underlined. So, yeah,

33:50

they have a thing called heads and handmaids.

33:52

They basically believe that the husband

33:55

is in charge of his wife. Uh,

33:57

and that likely

34:00

there's like a mentorship system

34:02

where people within the group

34:05

who are considered like leaders will

34:08

dictate to people who

34:11

are like their

34:13

charges, what what, who they're

34:15

allowed to date, what they're allowed to do, how

34:17

they have raised their children? Simplifies it.

34:20

Um, Yeah,

34:21

right, so what's the problem.

34:25

Sounds like she's a good Catholic woman. Yeah,

34:29

the church and is all about mentoring.

34:31

Sadly, the names are a little weird, and

34:34

yeah, maybe it's tied to some you

34:36

know, fantastic novel.

34:39

Uh well apparently after

34:42

the show, the book, sorry, after the

34:44

book came out, they there

34:46

was too much pressure on the name. So they so

34:48

now instead of calling them heads and handmaids,

34:51

they just call them leaders. But we know what

34:53

the names used to be, right, yeah, right,

34:55

I mean just like the idea of this, right, I

34:58

can't imagine what it looks like during a information

35:00

hearing when they're talking about

35:02

so in this group, you would

35:04

follow people around and

35:07

report them for doing things that were

35:09

untoward based on the belief system

35:11

of this group, yes, and then they could be punished.

35:14

Yeah, okay, um

35:16

yeah. The former members quote is they're

35:19

very watchful of their people. They report things

35:21

to your heads if they see you out doing

35:23

things you're not supposed to be doing. It's very much

35:25

a big brother type of thing. Um,

35:28

so party,

35:31

right, yeah exactly. Yeah.

35:34

Yeah. So I was like, I don't like um Mrs

35:37

Barrett because she's like kind of a narc dude.

35:39

Honestly, that's kind of sucked up. I

35:41

get your judge, but also I guess, come

35:44

on, this is some um

35:46

raspute and ship like the

35:49

carrots. So I looked up the charismatic

35:51

Christian movement because I thought it

35:53

just I thought it meant like mega

35:55

church. Um.

35:58

But the speaking tongues,

36:00

so they believe

36:02

in like the spiritual gifts,

36:05

the terrorism or something, which is like

36:07

there's all these spiritual gifts and they

36:09

can do miracles. They believe in healing,

36:12

so like laying of hands. They speak

36:14

in tongues, they do prophecy.

36:17

They and then there's some that are like less what

36:19

the funk about them? But still

36:23

this is that's intense, Like that's intense.

36:26

If you heard, if you saw someone on the

36:28

corner who looked disheveled

36:30

speaking in tongues, you would steer clear

36:32

of that person. But

36:34

now we're going to confirm them potentially

36:37

to the Supreme Court. Um. But yeah,

36:39

when I say it's respute and ship, I just mean that,

36:41

like she doesn't I doubt

36:43

she's making decisions on her own. She's connected

36:46

to this whole party that now is going to be

36:48

at the levers of power. This is

36:50

not separation of church and state at

36:52

all. And also apparently she like

36:55

Diane Feinstein said something to

36:57

her like the some

37:00

thing is strong

37:02

in you or something lives loudly within

37:04

you. Yes, Amy Barrett

37:07

claims she can separate the two.

37:09

But I'm I don't, I don't quite

37:11

buy that I wanted what they should do

37:13

is like hook her up to like a brain activity

37:15

monitor, heart rate breathing monitor, and

37:18

then play the whap video on loop.

37:21

See if we'll know, we'll know,

37:24

we'll know what's firing off

37:26

when she's she's watching that, or if she's

37:28

like or if Loki she's feeling it. Then they're like, I

37:30

don't know, she might be cool, this might she might

37:32

be a friend because her husband just sucks. But that's the

37:34

other thing too, is like what influence does would her husband

37:37

potentially have, Like she's already

37:39

saying that she's in subscribe to this

37:41

belief where she is subordinate to her

37:43

husband. And then but

37:45

but even then there were expected to

37:47

believe. It's like, well, we're not going to go that far

37:49

where I'm going to affect her work. I mean,

37:52

yes, I'm her boss, and I tell her how to cut

37:54

her hair and what to wear and how to smell, what

37:56

to eat and when they eat and how many times did you before

37:58

swong? But I would never tell

38:00

her how to you know, decide on a case

38:02

with something to do? Is like in you know, I

38:05

don't care like abortion whatever, I don't care

38:07

like that's her the

38:10

funk out of here. That's like, this is it really

38:12

is. It's just it's it's it's unnerving,

38:14

and it's just so bizary that we're looking

38:16

at somebody that makes like a Bret having

38:19

ill look like Ibram x Kendy or some ship

38:21

like the most woke do it on the plane. You're like what, but

38:24

um, yes, this is but these

38:26

are the kinds of people you need. Because also the other benefit

38:29

to having her she's only forty eight, so

38:32

she could serve for a hot minute,

38:34

like for a while. Um.

38:37

And that's why I think, Yeah, we're just having

38:40

to keep our eye out. And that's why it again, it's

38:43

this is how the consequences of

38:45

this decision could could have, you

38:48

know, echo for generations, depending

38:50

on how uh Democrats respond,

38:53

if they're able to completely uh come

38:55

to power. Alright, let's

38:58

briefly talk about the grim Aisle

39:00

Stone, as I think it'll be called

39:02

in every headline in every major newspaper

39:04

that America just crossed with two hundred thousand

39:07

dead from the coronavirus.

39:09

It's brutal. It didn't

39:12

have to be this way, Um,

39:14

and yeah, I just

39:16

go back to that article uh

39:19

that I talked about from

39:21

where they looked at the coronavirus

39:25

outbreak and pandemic like it

39:27

was an airplane airline crash

39:29

and you know, did uh did

39:32

the black box recovery on it? And we're

39:34

just like, yeah, this is basically all

39:36

pilot error. This is all

39:39

uh, you know, mistakes, Like there were

39:41

systems in place to help

39:43

deal with this and that would have stopped

39:47

this, and instead we had

39:49

a pilot who was actively you

39:52

know, doing the opposite of what the protocols

39:55

uh tell you to do. Mm hmm yeah.

39:58

And people like aren't you know if like

40:01

Trump supporters when you say this could

40:03

have been avoided, and

40:06

you know, you have these like really seemingly

40:10

sound debates or discussions

40:12

or arguments about like this is where they

40:14

were negligent, This is where they missed an opportunity.

40:17

This was also a missed opportunity. This is the quote

40:19

to back it up, uh that the

40:21

pivot is just two oh, well it doesn't exist

40:23

and it's actually not that bad. Um. And

40:26

that's that's what's also frightening too, because

40:28

I think even if they don't think it's

40:30

not that bad there are so many people

40:32

that have Even if you don't know, if you don't know someone

40:35

personally that lost their life, your life has

40:37

been affected by this tremendously

40:40

because of how this was mishandled. Like I

40:42

have two family members that passed

40:44

away in Japan that I have not been able to

40:46

go and mourn their deaths because

40:48

I can't travel, And I know so many other

40:50

people who have either braved cross country

40:52

travel, international travel despite that,

40:55

because we just there are certain things

40:57

we're trying to do. But at the end of the day, because

40:59

the leader ship has been so awful,

41:03

you know, we've only just managed to

41:05

exacerbate this to a point where like we honestly

41:07

don't think we could have even imagined. What

41:10

drives me batty are the people who try

41:12

to spin it like two d thousand

41:15

really isn't that much, you

41:17

know, um, the number of like it's really

41:19

since a small percentage and we're going to change

41:21

our whole way of life just over this,

41:23

you know, tiny percentage. And it's like

41:26

we changed our whole way of life after nine eleven

41:28

and that was far fewer people. This

41:30

is sixty seven nine elevens in terms

41:32

of death toll. Yeah, Trump just gave

41:35

a speech where he was where he

41:37

talked about how nobody,

41:40

nobody knows anybody. It barely affected

41:42

anybody. And yeah,

41:44

I mean it's again the bipartisan

41:47

playbook for leadership in a

41:50

pandemic that like everybody

41:52

agreed on ahead of this one is slow,

41:54

steady repetition of the same

41:57

talking points of like the facts that everybody

41:59

agrees on on grant your seal

42:01

of approval to a scientist and keep

42:03

supporting them, don't insert yourself,

42:06

like, don't put yourself out front, and

42:08

like he did everything the opposite

42:11

of that, to the point that that sounds like I

42:13

was just like writing that up

42:16

as a contradiction like everything he did,

42:18

but that that was the playbook

42:20

before and he completely

42:23

disregarded everything. And

42:25

then the Woodward stuff that came because before

42:28

it was like, oh, he's just up, huge

42:31

idiot, and then the woodwords stuff came

42:33

out and it's like, no, he he knew

42:35

what he was. He knew the truth. Um,

42:40

and now it's less

42:42

than Uh. Most Americans

42:44

are wary of the of the vaccine

42:46

to the point that they won't get the

42:48

They say they won't get the first uh,

42:53

the first vaccine because you know, people

42:55

on the left are wary of

42:57

it because Trump has like attached

42:59

his name to it and also uh,

43:02

you know, has made it there

43:04

just they're just ramming

43:07

something through to for his political

43:09

purposes. Um. And you

43:12

know, people on the right don't think it's

43:14

real. I guess so, and also

43:16

are anti exers. I mean just you

43:19

know, there are a lot of articles trying to put into perspective

43:21

numerically what two hundred thousand

43:23

deaths is, and it's,

43:27

you know, on the smaller scale, it's the number

43:29

of people who have died from heart disease

43:31

over a sixteen week period, or the estimated

43:34

people who have passed away from cancer in

43:36

a seventeen week period. Um.

43:38

But then you start getting down into

43:41

it, it's fifty five years worth of

43:43

deaths in fires at the current

43:45

US you know, death rate in terms of structural

43:47

fires, it's seventeen hundred

43:50

years of Afghanistan War fatalities.

43:53

It's fucking twenty

43:55

eight battles of Gettysburg's. It's

43:58

eight d days worth of dead

44:00

people. It's fucking fifty

44:03

thousand Benghazis

44:05

worth of dead Americans.

44:08

And I think that's what's even really,

44:11

you know, that's just how you know, again, these people

44:13

nothing. What they say is actually what they believe.

44:15

The endgame is always just about to

44:18

cause as much, you know, just to re establish

44:20

the facto white supremacy in whatever

44:22

way they can get away with. And that's the bottom

44:24

line. Because I guarantee you if

44:27

the numbers look differently and a majority

44:29

of the COVID fatalities were white

44:31

Americans, uh, I

44:33

think there would be some alarms going up more.

44:36

But unfortunately it's people

44:38

of color that are bearing the brunt of a lot

44:40

of the fatalities. So, you know, let's

44:42

let's just pretend it's it's something that people

44:44

we don't know get. And also if

44:46

it happened under a Democratic president,

44:50

he would you'd never stop. I mean, you're we're still

44:52

hearing about h one and one. Yeah, exactly.

44:55

That's why I think anything that like a Republican

44:57

says after this presidency is just slute

45:00

bullshit, Like there's nothing. It's like you completely

45:03

showed, you've you've revealed yourself

45:06

to be a fucking spooky ghost, spooky

45:08

racist ghost, hateful motherfucker. So

45:11

anything, don't complain to me about whatever

45:13

you think ex president did because you were

45:16

fucking your front row at the Hate

45:18

Show, Uh, screaming

45:20

your ass off, and like, don't the

45:22

the idea that there is anything they could be outraged?

45:25

I think it is just preposterous. M hm um,

45:28

But what about our emails? All

45:30

right, let's take a quick break and

45:32

we'll be right back. And

45:45

we're back. So General

45:47

Mills has this new promotion

45:49

that they're doing where I'll

45:52

just read from the announcement. General Mills

45:54

is bringing back the taste in shapes that

45:56

ruled your Saturday mornings in the eighties.

45:58

Coco Puffs is bringing more chocolate. So

46:00

basically like they're saying, we're going back

46:03

to the original recipe. They're

46:05

doing like a new

46:07

coke, back to Coca Cola classic on

46:09

Cocoa Puffs, cookie crisp tricks

46:12

and Golden Grams, and on Golden

46:15

Grams that are like honey is back, which

46:17

so corn

46:20

syrup is out. So

46:23

apparently they changed the

46:25

recipes on these products without telling

46:28

people. I don't think people realized

46:30

that they you know, they didn't

46:33

do the Dominoes thing where they were like,

46:36

sorry, our food sucked for so

46:38

long. Please, uh, except

46:40

this new food. And I

46:42

don't know, it's just interesting to me to think

46:44

like, are there other products

46:47

like McDonald's famously changed

46:49

the recipe on their French fries, like

46:52

they fried it in a different type

46:54

of oil. Now, oh yeah, it's not beat well

46:56

you used have beef. Yeah, yeah,

46:59

so now it's I

47:02

think more of a vegetable oil. And there's

47:04

a lot of people who claim that it's

47:07

much worse than I don't

47:09

know. There there's also the type of banana

47:11

wheat today are completely different from the

47:13

types that made bananas popular

47:15

in the first place. Uh. In the

47:18

like forties and fifties, bananas were

47:21

supposedly a more sturdy and

47:23

tasty version

47:25

called the big mic and then

47:27

something called Panama disease came

47:30

through and wiped all those out that, yeah,

47:33

exactly, and they had to replace

47:36

it with what we have now, which is the

47:38

Caven dish banana, uh,

47:41

which is yeah,

47:44

that's like an apple ass name, the

47:46

Caven dish. Like that sounds like a yeah,

47:49

that's like Macintosh. That's

47:51

come on, banana industry

47:53

should go like excavate

47:56

some um big mic seed

47:59

and bring it back and branded in the same

48:01

way the Cereal company has. Because it sounds

48:03

like we've never had a banana the way we're

48:05

supposed to have a banana. I think that

48:08

this Doing a little bit of research on

48:10

this made me think that bananas are

48:12

a real growth industry because, first of all,

48:15

bananas are the most popular food

48:17

in America. Like they're the food

48:20

that is eaten more than any other food

48:22

in the country, I think, just by

48:24

like mass. But also

48:27

we only have the one type, whereas with apples

48:30

and everything else, with

48:32

grapes, we have all these different types

48:34

that you can use, and then bananas this just

48:37

one type of bananas.

48:40

Yeah, Caven dish,

48:42

I think I

48:45

feel like very specifically. I know

48:47

you think pepsi hits differently Jack now,

48:49

but I think caffeine free

48:52

diet pepsi in the gold can

48:55

that she doesn't hit the same, That doesn't

48:57

hit the same, Not since the night, not since the

48:59

ninety shout out to my friend's grandma,

49:03

wonderful Scottish got you onto that, Yes,

49:06

Nana, she was a She

49:08

was smoker cigarettes and drink her caffeine

49:10

free diet pepsi And like

49:12

I was like, what the what is she on about? Because

49:14

I didn't have soda in my house, so I would

49:17

drink it and it was fucking I don't know if it was a

49:19

gold can, but I still remember having

49:21

it like maybe two years ago, and it just was fucking

49:23

It was not right. There was something slightly

49:25

off, and it could just be that my taste buzzer are completely

49:27

different. But I like to think I'm a I'm a

49:30

diet diet caffeine free pepsi truth

49:32

pepsi or coke is pepsi in the gold can too.

49:35

Pepsi was in the gold can as well. Diet

49:39

caffeine pepsi was in the gold Yeah.

49:41

Yeah, I was saying that I feel like pepsi used

49:43

to be more delicious, but that also

49:45

might be me just

49:48

like as a kid wanting a massive

49:50

like amount of sugar just dumped into my

49:53

because that's like the thing with Pepsi's

49:55

like sweeter, which is why it wins the

49:57

taste tests. If you're just having

49:59

like a sip of it, it's better. But if

50:01

you're trying to drink a whole can, if

50:03

you're not a kid who's just like, take

50:06

my DA, give me all the sugar.

50:09

This whole segment sounds

50:11

like we're in the year twenty forty

50:14

where none of this ship exists anymore, and

50:16

we're just like yeah, man, remember pepsi

50:21

Banana's brother. I

50:25

didn't know that pepsi was sweeter. I think

50:27

of myself as someone who prefers, well,

50:30

I prefer a clear diet

50:32

soda like uh Sierra Missed

50:34

or Diet seven up or diet Sprite. That's actually

50:36

what I reached for. And the reason

50:38

is because I had clear braces

50:41

back when those were all the rage and

50:43

the braces themselves were a porcelain,

50:46

but the rubber bands would get

50:48

stained from diet coke. So that

50:50

is I used to prefer diet coke, but

50:52

I switched at that point to the clear ones, and

50:55

then that has my My love of those

50:57

has stayed the whole time. But you

50:59

know, at like a back in the day, when we left the house

51:01

at a restaurant or something, I would always order

51:03

a diet coke and they says, diet pepsi okay,

51:05

and it was, but I preferred, I prefer

51:08

diet coke. So yeah,

51:10

I was unaware that pepsi is sweeter. I

51:14

I will say, no, I'll just have a regular pepsi

51:17

if it's between diet pepsi.

51:19

If if I ask if for a diet

51:21

coke and they're like nose, diet

51:23

pepsi. Okay, I'll just have a regular

51:25

pepsi. I do not like diet pepsi.

51:28

You'll be like, well, I'm calling the police, now speak

51:31

your manager. Do you think

51:34

for these Cereals going back

51:36

to their retro version was like

51:38

their nuclear option, They're

51:41

like, in case of emergency, brake glass because

51:43

you're right. By doing it, they're admitting

51:46

that they were using these

51:48

kind of bullshit ingredients all along and

51:50

they hadn't told us. Yeah.

51:53

I think, I think maybe,

51:56

or it's just a miscalculated

51:58

like going back to like

52:01

trying to play on people's nostalgia.

52:03

It's part of this thing they're doing where

52:06

they're doing like a drive through event

52:09

at the Rose Bowl with hosted

52:11

by a C. Slater um

52:14

Mario. Yeah,

52:17

where they're going to like watch

52:19

Saturday Morning cartoons and like give out

52:21

bowls of old school cereal.

52:24

Um wow. It's interesting if you think

52:26

who they're targeting, Like they're not targeting the

52:28

sugary cereal kids

52:32

us. Yeah, it's

52:34

because junk food is like king in

52:36

the pandemic. Now. Yeah, we

52:39

were talking our writer JM

52:41

was pointing out, like all these pandemic

52:44

specific ad campaigns like Coke

52:46

and Pepsi both launch

52:48

specialty cans to celebrate

52:51

and thank healthcare workers. How about

52:53

you donate some fucking money, right,

52:56

Yeah, because stupid? Can you

52:58

know they'd really like some ppe? Yeah.

53:01

And also, sugary

53:03

beverages are like a major cause

53:05

of obesity in America, and obesity

53:08

is like a major risk factor for COVID.

53:10

I think it's forty percent. People

53:13

who are obese are forty eight percent more likely

53:15

to die from COVID. So

53:17

it's just kind of a weird look on their part.

53:20

Well, you know, you got you gotta you gotta make money to you

53:22

know. That's like that's the thing which is so funny

53:24

that part of it. It's like sort of like feel good.

53:26

But then it's like like it's feel good, we

53:29

can make some money and we don't look

53:31

like total ship for like sucking up all the world's

53:33

water. Let's just do that. Hines

53:36

called their workers keeping America's

53:38

catch up supply flowing everyday heroes.

53:41

Uh, and the tagline

53:43

on the ad was we got you America.

53:46

Um. And meanwhile, they

53:48

were called out by workers for poor

53:50

factory conditions after the

53:53

pandemics started, and they were

53:55

still encouraging people to come into work

53:57

while sick. It's such a weird response.

53:59

It just feels really exploitative to me. I

54:04

mean every company had

54:06

the same exact response

54:08

when the pandemic started. They because you

54:11

couldn't distinguish one ad from

54:13

the other. It was all the same b

54:15

roll from a stock footage

54:18

house of like people

54:21

being at home with their kids, and

54:23

then you know, just piano music

54:25

was really in

54:27

these times. It's

54:31

like everything when you guys

54:33

email someone, like

54:36

what do you say? Because I would,

54:38

I would say like hope you're you know well,

54:41

parenthesis as well as well as well as can

54:43

be expected. I don't even know what to say anymore.

54:46

Yeah, I just don't email

54:48

people. That's I

54:51

disappeared off the grid. I don't

54:54

know. I think I signed off with a pleasantry

54:56

because I feel like starting off, it's like we get it, dude.

54:58

Every every every everything f sucks. Like

55:02

I was joking yesterday with our

55:04

guests before we were like when we started recording,

55:07

I was like, how are you, Caitlin? And then we

55:09

were both like what the funny? I

55:13

was like, you're breathing part

55:16

good? Great, Let's we'll keep it there,

55:18

like we'll focus on the things that are like great.

55:21

But yeah, it's such a difficult question

55:23

because you know, there was that even that study that said

55:25

how much of an effect this the pandemic

55:28

and media coverage has had on like the American

55:30

psyche and people's sense of well

55:33

being and how it's gotten like

55:35

so many people in a depressive state. Um,

55:38

it's yeah, so like it. It's it

55:40

were even robbed of being able to like we're

55:42

all just like emo teens where we'd barely be like,

55:45

hey, it

55:47

asked to be born, especially now exactly

55:51

Burger King, by the way, I encourage people

55:54

to be couch potatriots,

55:57

fuck off and stay

56:00

home of the whopper. Uh

56:03

so some companies

56:05

got it right, is what I'm saying. Okay,

56:08

catch protatriots actually makes me smile

56:10

a tiny but I mean, like, I feel like it's kind of clever.

56:13

But but funck them anyway. I'm not yeah,

56:15

I'm not. Look, I'm not gonna lie I

56:18

snickeredt

56:23

but U in this context, you're

56:25

like, god, it's so funny, like and

56:27

then I feel bad. I'm like, yeah that that made

56:30

me laugh at the thing that killed two people,

56:33

because I think that's sort of the bottom line is too.

56:35

Which is weird is that even like when

56:37

you have big you know,

56:40

burger king sombreros that keep

56:42

people six ft apart or whatever

56:44

that are like fun to look at and are easy

56:47

like social media fodder, like it's

56:49

still like born out of it's all set

56:51

with this terribly dark backdrop,

56:54

um, and it's just sort of like, yeah, I guess

56:56

this is like the little weird dark

56:59

shred of happiness that it's very

57:02

it's very dysturbing. The giant

57:04

social distancing burger king

57:07

crown sombreros is really dark.

57:09

There's like a doz a Key's cooler

57:11

that's six ft apart. They noticed they

57:13

like sees onto the one detail

57:16

that's like easy to get your mind around, and that

57:18

is, of course the thing that turns out to not necessarily

57:21

be true that Oreo

57:23

did a thing where it's like eat

57:25

your Oreos without using your hands,

57:28

because that's a that's a

57:30

way to because hands are dirty, I

57:32

guess. But obviously obviously

57:35

eating things like off the table

57:38

is probably not like a

57:40

more sanitary way of doing it.

57:43

There's also some really fucked up stuff

57:46

with baby formula companies

57:49

and the way that they are advertising

57:51

as like a more healthy way

57:53

of feeding your baby during

57:56

the pandemic, like there was in Vietnam.

57:59

One company photoshop to

58:01

face mask onto a baby and also,

58:03

uh photoshop the baby giving a thumbs

58:06

up the discerning baby

58:08

who is cares about safety right?

58:11

Another Vietnamese company advertised

58:13

its formula not with picture

58:16

of a baby, but with a giant photo of the

58:18

Director General of the World Health

58:20

Organization. Uh,

58:23

because they're like this is and it

58:25

yeah again it's there. There's a long history

58:28

of companies that produce formula

58:30

trying to convince people that formula

58:33

is the healthier, more sanitary option

58:35

than breast milk, even though doctors

58:38

and experts claim that's not the case.

58:41

So I don't really understand what they're

58:43

suggesting. Are they suggesting

58:46

that breastfeeding your baby could pass

58:48

them COVID or just the like

58:51

they're just the skin to skin contact

58:53

is unsafe because it's like gross or

58:55

something. I don't know. I don't understand. I

58:57

mean, if it was like someone else breastfeed

59:00

your baby, I could understand. Okay, maybe not right now,

59:02

but if you're the one breastfeeding your baby,

59:05

yeah, I don't know. It just

59:07

seems like it's of a piece with this wider

59:10

genre of formula companies

59:12

that make formula doing shady

59:14

stuff to imply that this is actually

59:16

the clean, healthy way of doing right. Yeah,

59:19

it's yeah great. I think

59:21

just like this is like association. Just by association,

59:24

it's better. It's like yeah, yeah.

59:26

At a certain point, be like, oh wow, this breast

59:28

milk container has like a sick as lambo

59:31

on it. Maybe kid would be like successful

59:33

and drivel lambriga. Know it's like he just make

59:35

someone feel good. So you're like, yeah, fuck

59:38

it. I know one probably doesn't have anything to do with the other, but

59:40

yeah, you did it. There was also

59:43

the Pepsi slapped its logo on a

59:45

sign for a COVID nineteen testing

59:47

site and a Walmart parking lot. I think

59:49

that was my favorite example. It

59:51

was eventually taken down after

59:56

the yeah quote dystopian

59:58

hell that it COVID

1:00:00

nine tests, the COVID nineteen testing right

1:00:03

now.

1:00:07

Oh god, Alison,

1:00:11

it's been a pleasure having you

1:00:13

on the daily zeitgeist. Where

1:00:16

can people find you and follow you? It's

1:00:18

been so much fun. Thank you again for having

1:00:20

me. Um you can find me and follow

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me at Allison Rosen a l I

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just want to um A L I s O N R

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and listen to my podcast Alison Rosen is

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and then my Parenting Ish podcast. And

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I say it is because I would say, like half our listeners don't have kids,

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you don't need them. Um

1:00:41

uh, that comes out on Wednesdays every other

1:00:43

Wednesday. Nice And is there a

1:00:45

tweet or some other work of social

1:00:47

media you've been enjoying. Okay,

1:00:49

so this one involves a tiny bit of a backstory.

1:00:52

Uh, my husband's last name is

1:00:55

Quantz and he comes on my podcast

1:00:57

a lot, and we have this running bit that

1:00:59

he's going to start a Quimby

1:01:01

competitor called Quabbi, and

1:01:05

the joke is going to be Quimby is like quick bite,

1:01:07

so it's like short content, and a

1:01:09

Quabbi is going to be like an entire

1:01:11

movie that is delivered all

1:01:13

at once. So when you play your quabby

1:01:16

it just goes you can like the

1:01:18

super fast. Yes. So anyway,

1:01:22

so he responded to a tweet

1:01:24

from Variety saying Jeffrey Katzenberg's

1:01:26

Quimby is looking to sell it so and

1:01:29

he wrote as CEO and founder

1:01:32

of Quabbi, I would like to announce that we

1:01:34

are looking to acquire quimby It

1:01:37

does the word play amuses me? Yes? Yes,

1:01:40

Miles where you can people find you with tweet you've been

1:01:42

enjoying, like find me on Twitter and

1:01:44

Instagram. Sometimes

1:01:46

I don't know, depending on how in

1:01:49

touch I am with my emotional stadium,

1:01:51

I may my may respond, I may look I sometimes

1:01:54

I won't. But Yes At Miles of Gray

1:01:57

also my other podcast for twenty

1:01:59

Day Fiance with Sophia Alexander, we're

1:02:01

just getting hard and talking about any day fiance. You

1:02:03

know, you know what we call a cheapass

1:02:05

therapy. Um, So that's what

1:02:07

we're doing on that that comes out Wednesdays

1:02:09

and Thursdays. Some a tweet that

1:02:11

I like. There is one tweet that I like. I was able

1:02:13

to muster the energy to cast my

1:02:16

gaze upon this cursed device, uh,

1:02:19

to get one good tweet. It is

1:02:21

from Eve Donnally, which is actually

1:02:23

Dana Donaldy's younger sister. So she's at

1:02:25

Eve effing Donnelly, uh,

1:02:28

and she tweets what's the

1:02:30

German word for spilling bomb water

1:02:32

all over yourself in bed? At seven am

1:02:34

on a Tuesday.

1:02:38

Oh man. Uh,

1:02:40

you can find me on Twitter, Jack Underscore,

1:02:42

Oh, Brian. A tweet I've

1:02:44

been enjoying is from

1:02:47

one of the hosts of Worst Year Ever. They

1:02:50

certainly called it when they named their show

1:02:52

that uh late, their

1:02:55

show about the year. Cody

1:02:58

Johnson at dr Mr Cody tweeted,

1:03:01

this was this a little old, but uh

1:03:04

really made me laugh. It was in response

1:03:06

to the tweet where

1:03:08

somebody was like imagining

1:03:12

Ruth Bader Ginsberg meeting up

1:03:14

with Chadwick Boseman,

1:03:17

Yeah, meeting up with Chadwick Boseman and heaven.

1:03:20

Uh and so Cody's tweet was RBG

1:03:23

meeting George H. W. Bush and heaven

1:03:25

as he gives her a peck on the cheek. Scalia

1:03:27

is there next to Prince who is

1:03:30

his best friend. Wilford Brimley and

1:03:32

Doris Day walk in another pack on the

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cheek. David Bowie smiles. We

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saved you a seat. Fuck

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fest erupts fluids everywhere.

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I really got me at the end there. Uh. You

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We link off to the information that we talked about

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in today's episode, as well as the song

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we ride out on Miles.

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What are we riding out on today? This

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is a little remix only

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on SoundCloud though, because you know, some

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of these mashups, the record labels don't

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like them because people are using their artistic

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license to express themselves. But I find

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them fantastic. This is a remix

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of the ny r D track Lemon, but

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it has like a funk disco

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vibe to it, so it hits

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completely different. And I know it's Wednesday,

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so it's hump day, so let's just, you know, let's use

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the energy of this to get the Thursday. Then you shut

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your eyes one more time, it's Friday, and then we get to

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the weekend. Okay, so this is the l Train

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remix to any r D s Lemon, So

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keep that all right, We're

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gonna ride out on that. The

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gonna do it for this morning. Will be back

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this afternoon to tell you what's trending,

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and we will talk to you all. Then.

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I get

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it, how I live with how

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I get it. Turn the motherfucking pull

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it with a lemon. It's

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just listen, a squirlish

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motherfucker. We finished. I told you

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we won't start nigger by the Pennis

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like girls, but your wait alone

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to the peic and to say wrong by,

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tell the Papa roup and get the list. Rock got

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the winder now, cop blown up, got

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the he don't want to go Rock you

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can guess me read in the New

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Lumper wrong, and the drup behind

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me got yeah,