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I'm Paris Nicholson. And I'm Michael Berry.

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And this... whoa. I'm

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2:15

my full name. I'm Michael Judson Berry,

2:17

and apparently I'm afraid of birds. And this

2:19

is also the social dose.

2:21

Let's get into these headlines, shall we, Michaela?

2:24

Let's do it. The submarine

2:26

was not enough. We need planes

2:28

to fall out of the sky, it seems. As

2:31

it turns out, Arizona Senator Kirsten

2:33

Sinema is proposing a change to

2:35

how training hours are counted for pilots,

2:38

permitting some of them to fly with as little as 500

2:40

hours of real flight time.

2:42

Which, if passed, could mean that my 200 hours

2:44

of cooking mama would have earned me my first Michelin

2:46

star. Yes, Independent Senator, uh,

2:49

Kirsten Sinema. I keep thinking Cinnabon.

2:52

I see that name, and it makes me want a cinnamon bun. Yes,

2:54

this has been proposed, and

2:55

the comments, like, people's responses

2:58

have been amazing. Like, the

3:00

comment that was like, I needed 1600 hours of training

3:03

to cut hair in Arizona.

3:05

Wow. Yeah. That seems excessive.

3:08

That seems excessive, I'll be honest. That's

3:10

true. For cutting hair too much for flying

3:12

a plane, probably a

3:14

great amount. Yeah, or

3:16

like the one from At Lost Shoe Strings, who's in

3:19

New York City, a massage therapy license requires

3:21

a thousand hours of training. Can you imagine, like, your masseuse

3:23

has more training than the pilot?

3:25

Oh, that's a great masseuse. Let me get that phone number.

3:28

Now, listen, I'm not a pilot

3:30

or a politician, besties, as we know. So, I brought

3:33

on one of our besties, political

3:35

strategist Brian Derek, to help us make

3:37

sense of all of this. Brian, Derek, thank you so

3:39

much for joining us today. Hello. Hi,

3:41

friends. I'm so

3:43

glad to be here. Let's get into it.

3:45

Yay. Okay, yes. Because

3:47

you saw how well I did just trying to summarize,

3:49

basically, the tweet. Can you make

3:51

sense of some of this for us? Like,

3:54

how... so there was a bill, there was flying... Absolutely.

3:57

So, there is this bill called

3:59

the Federal Aviation Act.

3:59

Act that Congress has

4:02

to renew for planes

4:04

and airports to keep operating and taking

4:06

us all over so we can go on our summer vacations

4:09

and to work and all these things. And so they have

4:11

to pass this bill. And Senator

4:13

Sinema has proposed

4:15

an amendment that would drop that

4:18

minimum number of in-flight hours for

4:20

pilots from 1500 potentially

4:22

down to as little as 500. And

4:25

so there's been a lot of outcry that

4:27

people are pretty concerned about that. Is she

4:30

presenting an alternative for that thousand

4:32

missing hours? Is it like instead of actually

4:34

in the sky doing that, you're doing it virtually or is

4:36

it just like you don't need that much time? There's

4:39

definitely a component of using simulators

4:42

instead of spending that full time in the plane

4:45

itself and the rationale there being

4:48

that you can have many more people

4:50

flying planes and simulators than the

4:53

expense that it takes and the time that it takes

4:55

to actually fly around in commercial

4:57

airlines. Could it be like an airport by airport?

4:59

I live right near Newark Airport

5:01

and we're just happy if we take off. So

5:04

drop it down to 20 hours if it means getting me out

5:06

of there. So the Newark pilots get less training. The

5:09

Newark pilots are quite, they literally just have

5:11

to show up and be like, can you chew gum and

5:13

walk at the same time? Okay, cool, you can fly this plane.

5:16

Just get me out of this airport. I'll

5:18

be honest, when you are in the cockpit and

5:21

flying the plane, you probably feel like you're in a simulation

5:23

anyway. You're just looking at what, clouds

5:25

and a thousand buttons around you? It probably feels exactly

5:28

the same when you're on the ground.

5:29

That's so true. I think that so much of it is

5:31

automated now, but when

5:34

things go wrong, you definitely want

5:36

the person in the cockpit to know what's going on.

5:38

Yeah, if I'm on that plane that has to land in the Hudson

5:40

River and then they make a movie about it, I want to make sure

5:43

that that movie has a happy ending. Didn't

5:45

that happen? You're referencing anything that happened? Yes.

5:48

Sully, Sullenberger. Yeah, I know. Sure,

5:51

sure, definitely it was that. What if he had only been training

5:53

for 500 hours? How would that have ended? Tom

5:55

Hanks would have had nothing to do. He would have landed in

5:57

the East River. Yeah.

5:59

would have been the wrong one. Paris, take

6:02

us into our first story.

6:03

Protect trans rights, protect

6:05

trans kids, protect trans

6:08

people. That's the liner divas, Michael

6:10

Judsenberry elaborates. In the past

6:12

few years, more and more states have passed legislation

6:15

banning or restricting gender-affirming care.

6:18

And I know we hear that term a lot, gender-affirming

6:20

care, and a lot of us may not be fully clear on

6:22

what that means. So our social

6:24

scientists have put a little summary together for us,

6:26

and it is care that encompasses a

6:28

range of social, psychological, behavioral,

6:31

and medical interventions designed to

6:33

support

6:33

and affirm an individual's gender

6:36

identity. Now, an example

6:38

of one of these bills is from Georgia. It's a Georgia

6:40

State Bill 140, which was passed

6:42

into law this March, which prohibits certain

6:45

surgical procedures for the treatment of gender

6:47

dysphoria in minors from being

6:49

performed in hospitals and other licensed healthcare

6:51

facilities. Whew, I think this

6:53

is the most serious thing I've tried to say, which is probably why

6:55

it was a struggle for me to try and sound like an informed

6:58

human being who is supposed to just do goof

7:00

with a microphone. Brian, as you are here and you actually know

7:02

what you're talking about, can you weigh in on these bills

7:03

that we have seen crop up all

7:06

too often these days? Yeah, there's been

7:08

a huge wave, a massive

7:11

increase over the last few years

7:13

in anti-trans legislation. And

7:15

this is something that we're tracking really closely

7:18

because it has very

7:20

dramatic effects on the LGBT

7:22

community and really on everyone

7:24

as it changes how we have,

7:27

how we see healthcare and our

7:29

right to autonomy in the

7:31

eyes of the law. And so what we're seeing

7:33

is from mostly Republican state

7:36

legislatures, about 17 states

7:40

around the country introducing

7:42

a huge number of bills that

7:44

restrict access to healthcare that

7:47

either prohibit federal funding

7:50

or actually criminalize doctors

7:52

who would provide this kind of care to

7:56

families who are seeking it. And so I think

7:58

the important thing to remember is that this is... is medical

8:00

care that is recommended by

8:02

every major medical association in

8:05

the country. This is what is considered to

8:07

be best practice. And

8:09

there are families out there who are just

8:11

trying to do right by their kids, who

8:13

are following guidelines from

8:16

medical professionals, and

8:19

then are being told by their state government

8:21

that they're not allowed to access that care, or in

8:23

some cases, laws that go so

8:25

far as to say, if you do access that

8:27

care, you could even lose custody of your child.

8:29

Wow, which is insane. Mind

8:32

you, this is health care that is sometimes

8:34

lifesaving.

8:35

Absolutely. We know that

8:38

youth who struggle with gender dysphoria

8:41

are at increased risk of

8:44

isolation, of mental health problems.

8:47

And so this is lifesaving

8:49

medically essential care that

8:52

people are being cut off from, really

8:54

just to score political points. Brian, my

8:56

question is this. It

8:58

feels like grown adults are

9:00

finding the

9:01

children in our community that are the

9:04

most marginalized and just piling

9:06

on to it. So can you help me understand what

9:08

the logic is

9:10

in them thinking, because everybody thinks that they're

9:12

the hero of their own story, right? Nobody thinks that they're

9:14

the bad guy. No one's intentionally being villainous, but what is

9:17

their

9:18

perception of what they're doing to make things better?

9:20

Yeah, I think that we're seeing this right now,

9:23

this huge increase, right? Less

9:25

than 40 of these bills were introduced in 2018

9:28

and more than 400 have been introduced

9:30

in 2023. Jesus. So

9:32

10x in just five years, which is really

9:35

just, as you're saying, piling

9:38

on, right? A massive increase and

9:40

keeping in mind that this is a tiny population,

9:43

less than 1% of Americans. Very

9:47

small. And I think that that's part of the actual

9:49

answer, which is not that

9:51

many people in the United

9:53

States personally know someone who

9:55

is trans. The last legitimate

9:58

survey that I saw put that. under 30%

10:01

of Americans report personally knowing someone who is trans.

10:03

And so what that means is that people are more susceptible

10:06

to misinformation about them

10:09

because they don't have an example

10:11

in their life to disprove that, right? To

10:13

be the counterfactual. That means

10:15

that elected officials can take

10:18

advantage of that situation, whip

10:20

up a lot of fear and anger around

10:22

the issue and then use that to

10:25

propel their own careers and to gain more political

10:27

power. And they did the same thing way back

10:29

in the day with gays and

10:32

lesbians, right? So thinking about the 1970s and the 1980s, there

10:35

was a lot of fear mongering going on about

10:38

having gay teachers in schools and

10:40

having gays in the military. And they

10:43

used a lot of the same sort

10:45

of tropes and disinformation

10:47

to really run

10:49

gays out

10:51

of public life back then. And so it was all about

10:54

protecting kids. And it

10:56

does feel like one of those where they're using that as a jumping

10:58

off to again, go after just like queer people in general.

11:01

Like it definitely does feel like one of those

11:03

where you really have to pay attention to where, what's

11:06

that adage where it's just like, first they came

11:08

for them, but I didn't care because it wasn't me. And then

11:10

they came for, and it feels like they're

11:12

picking an easy target to start with. I don't

11:14

know. You know, just

11:17

my sort of hypothesis. Cause you see it, it's

11:19

growing and it's very scary.

11:20

Absolutely. I

11:22

kind of want to synthesize this into a way that makes my brain understand

11:25

it better. Brian, let me know if you

11:27

would agree with this.

11:29

Can it be seen as in

11:32

the bigger picture, a good sign that

11:34

they have now shifted their focus from like

11:37

gays and lesbians to an even more

11:40

like marginalized community? Because

11:42

in

11:43

my mind, like they came for the gays for so long.

11:45

The gays and lesbians were like, you know what? We rally together. We

11:47

school together like a bunch of fish and then you can't

11:49

get to us. So then they just start picking up the ones

11:51

that haven't gotten like schooled together in like

11:54

the defensive whatever. And that's why

11:56

we're bringing in our trans brothers

11:58

and sisters so much more now.

11:59

than ever. So would you say that this

12:02

is a sign that they are running out of

12:04

things to attack?

12:06

So I think you're both correct. First,

12:09

it really has been a pivot

12:12

after marriage equality. The same

12:14

people who are organizing against trans people now

12:16

were the people who were running very public

12:19

campaigns against same

12:21

sex marriage 10 years ago.

12:23

And they lost that issue

12:26

in the court of public opinion. People were no longer

12:28

on their side. And so they couldn't be out

12:31

at the ballot box or in the street campaigning against

12:34

marriage equality because people just didn't agree.

12:36

And so they had to find something new. And you're exactly

12:39

right. They held on and picked

12:41

trans people as the new thing that they

12:43

wanted to attack. And

12:47

the danger there is that Michael,

12:49

you're exactly right. They're bundling all queer

12:51

people in with that. And so there's a new poll from

12:53

Gallup out just

12:55

last week that shows a 15%

12:59

drop in one year from

13:01

Republicans, from registered Republican

13:03

voters in whether or not they approve of

13:06

same sex relationships broadly. A

13:08

huge drop setting us back more than 15

13:11

years in that approval. And

13:13

so it is having effects across the

13:15

entire community when you're again, spouting

13:18

a lot of misinformation and trying to scare people.

13:21

So it's working. I would say it is

13:23

working in some communities. Yeah, we have a lot

13:25

of work to do. And that's why I'm so glad that you

13:28

guys are talking about this, right? And that

13:30

more people are out there taking this issue

13:32

head on, even if it's not something that you're necessarily

13:35

comfortable talking about or completely

13:38

filled in on. Well, that's why I'm

13:41

glad we have people like you who like,

13:43

if you don't follow Brian, friends, like definitely

13:45

go follow because I feel like you're brilliant

13:48

at taking really difficult issues and making

13:50

them a very accessible, very easy to understand

13:52

and also still light. I appreciate that

13:54

so much. Oh, and as these things are happening,

13:57

like definitely friends, like follow Brian for more like

13:59

information like this.

13:59

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15:02

To quote Samuel Jackson and one of our

15:04

favorite Instagram comments of 2023, you

15:07

there for the arraignment? Yes, Sam,

15:09

we are here for the arraignment, and

15:11

we are here for the indictments.

15:14

We're, of course, referring to the arraigning and

15:16

indicting of our 45th president, Donald

15:18

Trump. Number 45 is facing 37 charges, and

15:22

we have 100 reasons to love that.

15:25

Paris with more. Yes, Michael, that iconic

15:27

Samuel Jackson line was commented on one of Brie Larson's

15:30

posts back on April 4th, the week that Donald

15:32

Trump was being arraigned in New York City. But that

15:34

was the past, and now this is the present. And Trump

15:36

is currently being indicted on 37 charges relating

15:39

to him mishandling classified documents

15:41

that we may or may not have seen a photograph of next

15:43

to a toilet. Brian, what's

15:46

the general

15:47

gist of what he's done here? Wait,

15:49

were you not in that bathroom? Do you not know exactly what

15:51

was going on? There is no amount of money

15:54

that would convince me to go into that bathroom. Who

15:56

knows how much time it was spent in there reading.

15:59

Okay.

15:59

That famous last words, I've heard many

16:02

people say that exact line about various bathrooms

16:04

and actually to be fair, they were never seen again.

16:07

They're still in there. So they're still

16:09

in there. So basically

16:12

what we have here is a classic

16:15

example of a president

16:17

of the United States abusing

16:20

all of the powers of his office

16:23

in order to try to remain relevant.

16:26

So Trump is being charged with mishandling

16:28

classified documents. He kept

16:31

highly, highly sensitive information

16:34

about the nuclear powers

16:37

and secrets of the United States, of our allies,

16:39

about what we would do if we were attacked

16:42

or how we would attack other countries if we had

16:44

to do that. And he had all these documents,

16:46

like you said, in a bathroom, in a storage facility

16:49

at Mar-a-Lago. And

16:51

when the government tried to get them back

16:53

and say, hey, you shouldn't have those, he did

16:56

absolutely everything he could to hold on to them. He

16:58

had them moved. He lied

17:01

about what he had and what he knew or didn't

17:03

know about it. And so that's why he's

17:05

now being charged is because not only

17:07

did he take them, but he knew

17:10

what was in there and intentionally

17:12

held on to it after he

17:14

was asked to give it back. Well, there

17:16

it is. That seems pretty easy to understand. I

17:19

think we all over the course of this have seen a lot

17:21

of really fun memes and GIFs that come out of

17:23

this. Your social media response to this, to

17:25

a very serious topic, has been super fun.

17:28

But it's also like this is, this shouldn't be funny. Like

17:31

a president did something very bad and should be held

17:33

accountable.

17:34

Yeah. I think that it can be both. I think that

17:36

it's good. Okay. Thank you. Thank

17:39

you. That is how information travels now, right?

17:42

Is like it is meme-ified

17:44

or it's turned into content and that

17:46

is how young people consume information. And

17:48

so if we don't let ourselves make fun

17:50

of something and speak in a language

17:52

that people understand and talk about, then many

17:55

people will never hear it at all. Do you have any favorites

17:57

that have popped out for you with any of these Trump ones?

17:59

that that's bring to mind. I think

18:02

all of the Hillary ones just have the absolute

18:04

highest form of irony that

18:07

I love to see the juxtaposition

18:09

of anything with the emails and the boxes

18:12

is just sending. Yeah. Isn't

18:14

there like a rule or like a law that says, hey, president,

18:16

you can't take the documents to your house. You

18:19

keep them at the Oval Office or in a filing cabinet

18:21

with a lock. I don't know.

18:22

Are they allowed to just take stuff? No,

18:25

no, of course not. And I think that that was a big question

18:27

that a lot of people had was, but didn't Biden

18:30

do this? They found files there. Didn't

18:32

Pence do this? That they found files in

18:34

his home. That's true. I think that the

18:36

sensitivity of the documents is one major

18:39

game changer here where these weren't

18:41

classified because of who wrote them or something.

18:44

They were classified because they were the absolute

18:46

highest level of top secret

18:48

that documents can

18:51

be. In some cases, the documents were so sensitive

18:53

that even as president, Donald

18:56

Trump did not have the power to

18:58

declassify them. Really? Yeah,

19:01

exactly. Right. Because they

19:03

were so sensitive. That's good to know. Yep. That's

19:06

really good to know. Totally. Who has that

19:08

power? It has to go through the Department of Defense. Makes

19:10

sense. Yes. And how do you think,

19:12

because I've seen a lot of people say like how

19:14

obviously his base will always support him. They're just like,

19:16

he can do no wrong. Where

19:19

do you think this looks for the next election?

19:21

Do you think people are actually going to be like, we don't

19:24

know how we feel about you anymore? Yeah, I think

19:26

our best estimation

19:28

of what will

19:28

happen in the future is what has happened in the past.

19:31

What we've seen anytime Trump does something

19:33

bad and is called out for it is

19:35

that that core base just rallies

19:37

around him and normal

19:40

people open to other options move away

19:42

from him.

19:47

We've seen he's dropped a couple points since

19:50

the indictment across all polling,

19:53

but not enough that any other

19:55

Republican is like right on his heels

19:57

to take over as the front runner. OK.

19:59

He's currently still in the lead.

20:02

He is, yeah, he's still a front runner. Wow. Wow,

20:05

okay, that's upsetting.

20:07

One of my favorite Twitter

20:09

accounts called atlizaoutlives,

20:12

it's called, it's Liza Minnelli outlives, but atlizaoutlives

20:15

has had a good amount to say about this.

20:18

Whoever runs this account is one of my favorite

20:20

humans. And just sort of like announces

20:22

what's going on in the world by being like, Liza Minnelli

20:24

has now outlived this. So there

20:27

was one that was like, Liza Minnelli has outlived the

20:29

long wait for Donald Trump to be indicted. A grand

20:31

jury has voted to indict the former president for his

20:33

role in paying hush money to Stormy Daniels. Hallelujah,

20:36

and amen. And I just love

20:37

that that's sort of like the way we're

20:39

measuring things. It's like, this happened,

20:42

like Liza Minnelli has outlived yet again

20:44

another historic moment. I think she's

20:46

gonna have to live for a long time to see the

20:48

end of this thread, right? There's gonna be so

20:50

many things coming out about Donald

20:53

Trump's next arraignment, Donald Trump's

20:55

next court date, and maybe

20:57

Liza Minnelli outlived

21:00

Donald Trump being outside of jail. What

21:02

if she just outlives Donald Trump and he dies? I

21:04

never thought I'd see the date, Mama. That'd be great.

21:07

Remember that

21:07

Donald Trump, he's in prison now and I'm still here,

21:09

I'm still here. Like

21:11

that's how that would go. That's exactly

21:14

how that would go. Can you believe it, Mama?

21:17

Oh my God, Liza's, I'm

21:19

still here Carnegie Hall concert. Trump went

21:22

to prison, but I'm here.

21:24

Liza, take us to a break, will ya? After this

21:26

ad break, we're gonna get back into breaking social

21:29

media news. It's gonna be fabulous,

21:31

darling, just fabulous. Terrific, terrific.

21:34

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21:41

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22:43

Okay, this has been a very

22:45

serious episode, we get this, as far as we

22:47

go, so we gotta have a little bit of fun. So

22:49

we are going to play a game here at The Social

22:51

Dose. So Brian, the world of social

22:53

media is something we are experts in, but

22:56

you are the expert on politics, and we have prepared

22:58

a little game where we're going to put yours

23:01

and Paris' heads together when

23:04

the force is combined. That

23:07

was a way to phrase that. Like,

23:10

neither of you enjoyed that. But now you're excited

23:12

about

23:13

this game, I'm sure, called Red, White, and Twitter

23:15

Blue.

23:16

What's the game? Okay, how this works is,

23:18

no, I just want to introduce it for 25 minutes.

23:22

This is why they didn't hire me to host Wheel of Fortune.

23:25

Oh. No. My

23:27

self-tape was so good and unsolicited.

23:30

Okay. Um, Red,

23:33

White, and Twitter Blue is very simple. Unlike

23:36

my introduction, I will read you a tweet

23:39

from a politician, and you'll have to guess who tweeted

23:41

it from a list of politicians that I will give you. It's

23:43

a fun little multiple choice game. So,

23:46

here is our first one. Who is

23:48

challenging Jimmy Kimmel to a B-Ball

23:50

match? The tweet is, at

23:53

Jimmy Kimmel. Alright, big guy,

23:55

you talk a good game. You

23:57

besmirched my support for the...

23:59

Houston Rockets

24:02

eyebrow up face so let's

24:04

settle this man-to-man colon

24:06

one-on-one

24:08

hoops or ring ball if you prefer

24:10

the loser gives $5,000 to the non-political charity

24:14

of the winner's choice so who

24:16

is challenging Jimmy Kimmel to a basketball

24:19

match is it who tweeted this

24:22

who tweeted this is it speaker of the house Kevin

24:24

McCarthy secretary of transportation

24:26

Pete Buttigieg or Republican

24:29

senator Ted Cruz

24:31

I can't tell do you know the

24:33

answer to this Brian I do

24:36

know the answer to this I feel very

24:38

confident let me say okay on

24:40

one hand I don't want to say Pete Buttigieg

24:42

because Jimmy Kimmel seems like they

24:45

seem like they'd be on the same side but also is this Pete

24:47

Buttigieg's like idea of playful ribbing if so

24:49

he's an alien from another planet because

24:52

no human rights or speaks like this

24:54

okay well Pete is not challenging anybody to basketball

24:57

let's get real he's like fire yeah okay

24:59

yeah Ted Cruz just a

25:01

wee man

25:02

is an oh Ted Cruz is from Texas he's

25:04

not from Florida okay so maybe Houston

25:07

Rockets Ted Cruz is from Texas

25:09

I'm gonna say C is that what you were thinking Brian

25:12

absolutely Paris you know that

25:15

and you are both correct it is America's

25:17

favorite vacationer Ted Cruz okay

25:23

I'm actually impressed with myself let's hear the next

25:26

one okay great who's into

25:28

modern linguistics who of

25:30

these politicians is the most cunning linguist

25:33

here's the tweet refutiate misunderestimate

25:37

we weed up English is a living

25:39

language Shakespeare like to coin new words

25:41

to got to celebrate it

25:44

was this tweet from

25:46

Georgian Republican representative Marjorie

25:48

Taylor Greene former Alaskan

25:51

governor Sarah Palin or

25:53

former president George Bush

25:56

this one's tough cuz I feel like they're all

25:58

famously morons

25:59

Yeah, I'm immediately

26:02

drawn to Sarah Palin.

26:05

We Weed Up is giving me weird,

26:08

weird energy for me. Yeah,

26:10

very weird. And I don't think that Marjorie Taylor Greene could

26:13

definitely not spell Shakespeare. Like

26:15

she couldn't do that.

26:16

It's true. Oh. Not even

26:19

with auto correct. Not even with auto correct. Oh,

26:22

I don't think I could either, honestly. It's like.

26:24

Um. I

26:26

feel like refutiate and misunderestimate could

26:29

both be George Bush words, but the vibe overall is

26:31

giving Sarah Palin. I think you're

26:33

right, Brian. Yeah, the vibe is giving Palin to me. Okay,

26:35

final answer. Yeah. Yeah,

26:37

let's go Palin. Yes, it is. Sarah, I can see

26:41

Russia from my house Palin. She said

26:43

refutiate, misunderestimate,

26:45

and we weed up. We

26:47

Weed Up. We Weed Up

26:49

definitely sounds like something she would say. In what context?

26:53

In what context?

26:54

A hockey mom is lipstick on a pitbull

26:57

and I know how to we we up. Okay. Paris,

27:01

you we weed up once and it didn't end well for

27:03

you. So. Oh, that's

27:06

true, Andrew. That's the only context I have

27:08

for the term we weed up. I don't know what that could

27:10

mean other than accidentally peeing in one's own face.

27:13

One's pun at time Paris peed in his own face and he hasn't

27:15

stepped up to a urinal ever since. I was like

27:17

seven, Brian. It was sad. It was traumatizing.

27:19

All right, that was helpful context. I appreciate

27:21

that. Yeah. Okay,

27:24

last one.

27:24

Whose father was incredibly

27:27

intense?

27:28

When I was a kid, my dad used to walk

27:31

around the house saying, beat the system kids,

27:33

beat the system. It took me 50 years

27:35

to realize how much he really meant that.

27:38

Is this Florida governor Ron

27:41

DeSantis, majority Senate leader

27:43

Chuck Schumer, or presidential candidate

27:45

Marion Williamson? Okay, don't know Chuck Schumer.

27:48

So I'm just gonna say no to him.

27:50

Good call. I'm just giving Chuck Schumer, Brian. No,

27:52

Chuck Schumer loves the system. Yeah. Okay,

27:55

Marion Williamson hates the system and I do love

27:57

her for that. Totally this doesn't necessarily

27:59

sound like the.

27:59

the way she talks? Yeah, I feel

28:02

like if it were DeSantis, it would say, beat the kids,

28:04

comma, system. That's what I was

28:06

waiting for. Exactly. Exact system

28:09

kids. Exactly. So yeah,

28:11

I'm with you. I feel like-

28:13

Let's go Marianne. It's totally giving Marianne.

28:17

And you are both correct. Look

28:20

at you. Wow.

28:22

Oh, I'm so proud of you two. Can

28:25

use context clues and my resources

28:27

like Brian. Thank

28:29

you for carrying us through that game, Brian.

28:32

It was all you. It was all you. So wait, real

28:34

quick, I would love to hear your thoughts on Marianne Williamson

28:36

because I'm personally a fan. But I feel

28:38

like it's just not plausible at this point because the

28:40

world's not ready for her. But also,

28:43

how realistic are the things she's saying?

28:46

Yeah, I think that she is

28:48

really speaking the language to

28:51

reach specific segments of the

28:53

internet community of

28:56

the very plugged in community. I get from friends all

28:58

the time who spend a lot of time on TikTok

29:00

that they're big Marianne fans. I

29:03

think that in 2024, it is about what our options

29:05

look like

29:09

and what we can achieve. And

29:12

Marianne

29:14

does not have a path to being in

29:16

the White House. That's so upsetting. Because

29:18

yeah, I think that's right. I ideologically,

29:21

I'm like, yes, 100% Marianne Williamson.

29:24

But at the same time, it's like, am I throwing a vote away?

29:27

And you hate to feel that way. But

29:29

that's the way the two-party system works. And it sucks. Two-party

29:31

system is ass. I heard, I think in

29:34

school one time, Australia does a, I

29:36

don't know, some country does a different voting system where

29:38

you rank your picks. Yeah, that's like

29:40

Ireland. They have a five-party system. And you just rank

29:43

one to five. So chances are good one of your

29:45

top three is going to get there.

29:47

Yeah, nobody wins the majority

29:49

vote. Well, you just vote for your top five.

29:51

But as a result, everyone's at peace with that. Yeah, we should top

29:53

five. We should top five hottest presidents. I'll

29:56

start it. It's happening in some places.

29:58

New York City has implemented.

29:59

and ranked choice voting, as well as Alaska.

30:02

That's how we ended up with Congresswoman Mary Paltola.

30:05

Google it. And we love her? And

30:08

we love her, major, yeah. Okay, good.

30:10

Good, yeah. Well, it starts local. Starts

30:13

local.

30:13

Absolutely. I love that. It is indeed hopeful.

30:16

Okay, well, on that hopeful note, aw,

30:19

yes, thank you. We're gonna end on a hopeful note today. That is

30:21

all we have for today. Brian, thank you

30:24

so, so much for coming in and being our

30:26

special 4th of July correspondent and our

30:28

political expert. We very much appreciate having you here.

30:31

Yeah, Brian, thank you so much. Thank you for having me

30:33

on. Where can everyone find you,

30:35

go on walks with you, watch

30:37

you put on a blue blazer and get very excited about

30:39

politics? You can find me on socials,

30:42

except for Twitter, at

30:43

BrianDerrick underscore. Amazing. I

30:46

also feel like, should we guide people

30:48

to resources and places that they can donate or volunteer?

30:51

Yeah, I think that if you wanna take action,

30:53

especially on the trans issue

30:55

that we were talking about today, there are a lot of really

30:58

great state-based groups that I would recommend

31:00

like Equality Texas,

31:03

Equality Florida, the Tennessee Equality

31:05

Project, who are doing awesome

31:07

work on the front lines, making sure people get

31:09

the healthcare that they need. I love that.

31:11

And also the information that they need, because a lot of people are just

31:13

confused about what it is and making strong

31:16

choices based on misinformation. Exactly.

31:19

And you would never do that, Bestie.

31:21

Listeners, you would listen to the episode

31:23

all the way through, and then you would go to thesocialdosepodcast.com

31:25

and leave us a message with your thoughts on all of this.

31:27

I know you would do that, and you will, and I can't

31:30

wait to hear those messages, Besties. But

31:32

with that being said, I need to go

31:34

clear a path for Marianne Williamson to get

31:37

to the White House. And

31:39

I need to go find out who's running the Liza

31:41

Minnelli Outlives account, so I can go try

31:43

and get an internship there, because it just looks fabulous,

31:46

absolutely fabulous. Happy scrolling, friends.

31:48

Happy scrolling, Liza. Thank

31:50

you.

31:52

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