The Worst Week Yet

202. Free Speech Absolutish (Featuring Jen aka Big Nasty)

This week, Andrew and Kennedy were joined by our pal Jen to the pod to discuss whether or not THIS was the worst week yet.

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Broadcast on:: 30 Sep 2024
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[music] Welcome to the worst week yet. The least informed podcast on the left, it's a podcast where every week, we cross our teas, dot our eyes, and leave unanswered our biggest question. Why? I'm your host, Andrew Hillary, and I'm joined by my friend, Kennedy Cooper. Kennedy, what's up? You know, I think we have to take the title of maybe second or third, least informed podcast on the left now, because we're apparently covering the floods in North Carolina, which a lot of people are just sort of acting like aren't happening, which is a really interesting stance for media platforms to take. So, yeah, I think we're second or third in that category, especially, I mean, it depends. If we count Red Scare, we've always been the second least informed podcast on the left. Well, I will say, I've never counted Red Scare, and-- You should, maybe that's a first count. Yeah, yeah. You did listen to an episode of it once. They had, they got Alex Jones on. This is like five years ago or something. I was like, oh, okay. And actually, I had listened to a couple episodes of Red Scare in like 2017, just because like it popped up as like a leftist podcast. And I was like, this is like kind of okay, but like these girls are like weird a little bit. And, but this was before like, I think this was like when it was still just like dirtbag left stuff as opposed to like being full on reactionaries. And so I stopped after like maybe a handful of episodes and then a few years ago, I'm like, why do these people like Trump now? What happened? Like, and well, I think the thing is is that they're bad people and the show sucks. And, but the Alex Jones episode was fun. I think I can't remember. Anyways, speaking of podcasts with the word red in the title. Oh God, no, no, no. Oh, our guest today is the host of the brand new podcast, how the red was one. Jen, big nasty. What is up? Hello, that's me. That's my God given name. How are y'all? I'm good brand new podcaster. Welcome to the club. I know. Why did you choose to join this club? Why, why would I want to join this? I think I just like the sound of my own voice. Isn't that why anybody does this? You know, I hate the sound of my voice. Do you? And yet here we are recording it. Yeah, I never listen to podcasts. I'm on. I'm like, yeah, I listen to over and over and critique myself endlessly. It's probably not healthy either. I did the first three or four years that I was podcasting where I'd like, I mean, just in editing, I'd like go back and listen to like, you know, cut out every like, um, or, uh, and then at some point I was like, we don't have enough listeners for me to justify spending four hours editing this hour and a half long podcast. Wow. So congratulations. We're as week yetters. Now you get the umbs. Also, if you take out all the umbs, this hour and a half long podcast becomes like 40 minutes, which is not what our listeners have come to expect. True. True. The umbs are keeping it real. You know, like those are brain breaks and your brain needs a break when keeping it real goes. Brain rest is important. We all need brain. I'm going to go to brain bed. I'm going to kill myself, folks, we've, uh, Jen, tell us about your new podcast. What's it tell us? I mean, we already understand what it says about what it says about you as a person, which is not good, but, uh, tell us about the show itself. What's, what are you doing over there? Uh, you know, I, I, last night, uh, I was at this event for a friend and, uh, you know, talking to people I hadn't seen in a little while. And one of them was like, Oh, you know, you're, you're really good at public speaking. You should quit your job and speak more. And I was like, actually, I started a podcast, she's like, Oh, you know, what's so, what's this podcast about? I was like, I, you know, like organizing in the south current events. She goes, Oh, commie shit. And I was like, yes, yes, fucking go commie shit. So yeah, um, you know, I, I live in Austin, Texas. I've lived in Texas my entire life, uh, born and raised in Waco. You may have heard of us. Um, but I got out. I escaped the cult, uh, as soon as I could. And, uh, it's just kind of, I feel like a lot of, uh, you podcasters are a coastal elite. You know what I mean? And, uh, what do you mean the coast of Pennsylvania and Mexico? Well known. Look, if you have a coast, hang on a second, hang on a second. You might live closer to the ocean than either of us. Ooh, I'm about five hours from the Texas coast. Yeah. That's way closer to the ocean. It's not. Yeah. The quickest I could get to an ocean would be like maybe six and a half hours. First I gotta drive like 16 hours to El Paso. We'll start there. I mean, that's about how long it takes me to get to El Paso to El Paso, Texas, 16 hours from everyone. Yes. Um, okay. Well, Andrew can probably get on a train and go to New York city though, which to me makes him a coastal elite. Fair. Yes. Yeah. Actually, you know what I'm kind of siding with Jen now having a train is nuts. Okay. Train. Yeah. You cannot a coast. I'm sorry. You cannot call somebody who lives 30 minutes from West Virginia, a coastal elite. Get the fuck out of here. That's fair. That's fair. You can say that about the other side of Pennsylvania. Yeah. Sure. Philadelphia. Here. Mountains. Appalachia. Baby. That's right. We, you know, this is, this is, we got some mail billy shit going on out here. Fair enough. Fair enough. Yeah. Um, well, okay, regardless of where y'all live, uh, I, uh, I feel like there aren't a lot of, uh, I mean, I guess if you say Texas podcasts, you could bring up somebody like Joe Rogan, but he doesn't count as a Texan if you ask me. And he's definitely not talking about the things that I would like to talk about, which are you like the bullshit that goes on in the state. Um, my first episode came out last week and I interviewed a friend of mine who, uh, she doesn't necessarily like work in disability activism, but she is disabled and she does activism work for, uh, that community. Um, so we talked about that, what it's like being disabled. Not just in Texas, but in the U S and how shitty people are treated. We're all treated like shit, all working class people are thrown under the bus here. Um, but obviously people, you know, queer people, uh, black folks, immigrants, you know, we all have in addition to the working class struggle, uh, extra bullshit thrown on us. Um, so the first episode was about the disabled fight and my next episode is going to be about queer self defense, um, interviewing a friend of mine that does self defense work and, and is a trans person. Um, so yeah, so that's kind of the focus of it is getting some of these stories out from a south slash Texas slash feminist perspective that aren't necessarily getting told. Okay. Well, before, before I recommend the folks check out your podcast, I do have to ask you, um, do you condemn Hamas? I would never, never condemn any resistance movement, I just don't condemn stuff anymore to be safe. Yeah. That's fair. That's a far way to go. Yeah. We should do it. We should do an episode on your show about the border being built between New Mexico and Texas. Oh, that'll be fun. Build that wall. Baby. Build that Tim walls, baby. Let's fucking go. Um, so we got a lot of everybody go listen, go subscribe to how the red was one, uh, check it out. Now we do have some news to cover some illegal votes on Apple. Yes. Oh, for sure. And by the way, uh, by the way, here's a little tip. If you really want to support your friends podcast, go to the Apple store and just on every device in the store, give five stars to their podcast. It actually works. I did it when I was starting the show. Oh, that's cool. That's clever. I love that. Yeah. Also, if anybody is wondering, uh, Deanna, not here this week, she, uh, is carrying out a, um, well, let's just call it what it is, a coup, Deanna, uh, Deanna flew to, uh, should, should we say, Kennedy, uh, I think, Deanna's, I think, I think by now it's safe enough to say because. Deanna's in Uruguay is either succeed or fade succeeded or fail. Deanna's in Uruguay. She's going to take out actually not like their president. Deanna's in Uruguay to assassinate the, uh, Secretary of Education in Uruguay. I don't know. She wouldn't tell me why. She gave me a lot of details, but again, the why unanswered, the biggest, she's also going to assassinate the biggest McDonald's franchise owner in your, wait, is it Uruguay or Uruguay? Hey, we're all Guise, uh, folks, we have a patreon. It's patreon.com slash worst week yet. You can sign up. We are currently in the midst of what we are calling Shyamalan timber, which will slowly last over. Yeah. Which will soon be Shyamalan tober, uh, Kennedy and I are, we're revisiting some of the works of the one, the only M night Shyamalan and some of the experiences. Some of the, yeah, some rap is not making film, he's not making films. He's making, he's making life, uh, benchmarks, whenever you're on your deathbed, you will look back and you will remember where you were when you saw the happening. Okay. And you will remember signing up to our patreon to listen to us talk about some of his movies. We haven't done the happening yet. We will. We will. Yeah. It's happening. It's happening is happening. Goddamn it. And I'm going to let you in on a little, I want to say secret. I would say it's, maybe it's the best kept secret. Maybe it's the worst kept secret. Maybe this is just a piece of information that is not classified whatsoever. If you give $10 a month, we say your names. Yeah. That's right. So before we begin, I just want to give a big old shad, well, I'm just a simple Southern lawyer at, uh, that accent hurts my throat. I'm not doing it all. It's good though. You should do it. Go for it. Remember to say thank you to Zappax, just down on Dracula 206, tossy on his entry home for your fuck. Like my dad, the man in the West, terminally online lifters, Pablo Hummus Optimus, crime old, op goblin, Nadine Lewis, Brad, when I pay more for it, why not I pay more for only fast? Just true. Prane chain from Baltimore. That was great. That was not. I feel like I lost it and I was doing other stuff at some points, but you know what? That's the dedication I have to saying thank you to people who give this podcast money. Yeah. Now time for the news. Uh oh, why? We're going to lead off with a story, uh, that is mere and dear to the show. Um, this is something, I mean, we talk a lot about whenever, you know, friends of the show are in trouble or, you know, find themselves in a tough circumstance and never has that been more apparent than this week when, uh, friend of the show, New York city mayor, Eric Adams has been indicted. All right. All right. All right. Pete. Oh, real one. Okay. One out. Here's the thing. Chat. Chat. Is this real? I don't know if they two of you've seen much about this indictment, but like here's thing. Eric Adams, we've talked for so long about how goofy and like, uh, definitely awful, but also like so weird and silly that this man is and isn't, he has been indicted for doing like the most blatant corruption that like I think maybe we've ever seen before. Like this man, uh, first of all, he like stole like $10 million from the city. It's like this is like high stakes, but also like there's some things in there where he's like, he, he's like making deals with like the Turkish government so that he could get free flights. Mm hmm. I saw that he took a bunch of, uh, the one of the bribes was like nicotine dick packets or something. He took a fucking palette of Zinn pouches, it's $50,000 worth of Zinn. He's like, yeah, I guess I can do you a favor for that. It's so gross. And like, the thing is, is that like I said, this shit is all blatant, like he barely tried to cover it up. And when I say barely, my favorite detail is that like there are dozens of text messages where he is like he's texting somebody like, yeah, okay, let's do that crime. Also make sure you delete this message. So good. There's so many times where he's like, delete this message and it's like, oh, I always do. Cops really are the dumbest criminals. There's one on the fuckers on the planet. Um, can I just say, I think it would be a really safe bet if we just started arresting every newly elected New York City mayor on election day immediately. Uh, in fact, like, you know, the M night Shyamalan movie we recently reviewed trap. Yes. Uh, we should just, the New York City mayor election should just be a scheme to arrest people. That's, that's what, that's what we should use that election for. It serves no other purpose. Having a mayor in New York city is a joke and a scam from the start. And that's pretty obvious. Yeah. Any job that Rudy Giuliani could have actually been kind of good at is a fake job. We could expand this to every city. Like the mayoral election is just like who wants to go to prison next. I will say I do have to make one exception. And that is the town of Talkeetna, Alaska, where for about a decade, their mayor was a cat named stubs stubs innocent, not going to jail stubs is technically dead now. But technically, technically, uh, but yeah, I will make an exception. I think all the towns should have animal mayors. Mm hmm. Like I think, okay. New York city. Okay. I've actually seen some really good cases for this on ironically because like in a lot of ways, a mayor is only useful as a figurehead anyway. And so it's like just have like a cute animal be the mayor of every town and everyone can just vote on which animal they think is the most fun or the cutest every couple of years. I'm going to say, you know, like that, that whenever you have public events, it's like, Oh, here's the, here's the cute dog. Here's the cute cat. Here's the turtle that runs the town that turtle fucking drove up my property taxes. Bullshit. I'm going to say this. You know who should be the next mayor of New York city? A fucking rat. Yes. Yeah. Eric Adams, the one thing that he has been saying since he got into office is that we're going to do something about the rats. And here's the thing. It's like rats are kind of just a fact of life. If you have eight million people living in a city, you're just going to have rats. Like it is what it is. Like that's, that's literally like what civilization costs. You can't not have rats. That's not how earth works. You know, like, so like he's been lying about how he's going to get rid of the rats. And it turns out he's a fucking crook. He's been lying about a lot. So why don't we give a rat a chance to lead New York City? I support this. I'll illegally vote for that. I just want to say, you know, Rudy Giuliani already had a term, man, fair, fair, fair. We were just talking about it. So I want to move on to our next story. I just titled this one, police are fucking stupid. So it kind of goes in line with, you know, Mayor Eric Adams. So this is a lawsuit was filed this week against the LAPD stemming from a raid last October of a medical diagnostic center. So back in October, these cops decided to raid this like medical imaging center because they said that it was using higher than usual amounts of energy and that people had smelled the scent of cannabis nearby. Now, I want you to think about this, a medical diagnostic center using a lot of energy and somewhere in California smelling like we keep it. Okay. Okay. Very suspicious. So they like fucking bust down the door. There's only one person working when they did this. And it's just like some like like the person working the front desk, they like put her into custody while they're like tearing through this whole fucking facility. They found zero fucking weed plants like no, no weed at all. This is a fucking diagnostic center. But at one point, one of the cops was like in the back room next to the MRI machine. And suddenly the rifle he was carrying was sucked out of his hands and stuck to the MRI machine, because it's a giant fucking magnet. We've talked before about people taking guns into MRI rooms, like you're not supposed to do that. You fucking morons. So this cop was like in he was by himself. He's like trying to like rip this thing off of the MRI machine and can't get it off. And then he sees like the emergency release button, which is like, you're only supposed to push that in emergencies. And he's a fucking dumb ass cop, so he just pushed it and his rifle fell out. And then he just like left and I don't think he told anybody. But the thing is, when you push that button, it like releases all of like the like helium or whatever, like the gases inside that keep the thing running. So he like broke this MRI machine and just left and then he also left a full magazine on the ground in this room for some reason. Yeah. So yeah, they are suing the LAPD for breaking their MRI machine because this cop was so stupid. Damn right. Fuck the hell. And yeah, I don't know cops are dumb, but I got, I will say this story didn't have as much as I was expecting. I saw a cop in MRI machine in a headline and I was like, let's fucking go. I've only the rifle had gone off, you know. Yeah, we did a story like a year or so, maybe like three years ago. Time isn't real about somebody going in with the to do. They were like accompanying a family member, getting an MRI and they were concealed carrying and their gun went off and shot them like in the leg or something. Yeah. Yeah. And that was really exciting. I was hoping for something like that. Listen, I'm not even like anti gun, but like you don't need to take your gun into every fucking room you enter like, like, if you're like, I'm going to go on a seven day camping trip. I'm going to bring my gun with me because I'm nervous about what could happen to me out there in the woods alone or something like that. You know, like I might, I might sleep sure, like that's not necessarily, you know, like there are times and places, but then people will be like, Oh yeah, you know, I was at the pediatrician with my gun, like, dude, leave your gun in the fucking car or at your house for a moment. You'll be okay in the pediatrician's office. I have said multiple times that like though, I'm personally scared of guns just because myself, I am a suicidal person at times. I don't really have much of a problem with them, like existing or whatever. But every single time I see somebody at like a grocery store or a gas station with a gun strapped to their hip, it is like, you should be so fucking ashamed of how much of a fucking scaredy cat you are that you can't feel confident going in to buy a pack of cigarettes without wearing your gun. Like you are a scared little cowardly baby. Fuck you. There's a, you know, I always see in Texas, right? There are like, it's always a big truck that has like a stickers up, like a bumper sticker that's got like a big AR 15 on it. And to me, that's just advertising break into this truck. There's a free gun inside. It's one thing if you like feel like you need to carry for protection or whatever. I don't necessarily agree with that again, like in the grocery store or whatever. But to advertise it like that just kind of seems to defeat the purpose of being the like good guy with a gun. If everybody knows that you're, it makes yourself a target. Honestly, it's very silly. The boss monster advertising their loot. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I get AR 15. If I fuck you up. Let's go. So yeah, no, it's, um, it's, it's goofball. And you know, the thing is, is like the people that you see like open carrying like excessively in public, it's always like a, or what's not always sometimes it's like a guy, but it's like half the time, it's like a guy that's like six foot four and looks like he lifts weights anyways. And it's like, dude, you don't need the gun. Like you're safe in this room. Like you're a white man that could beat up any of us and probably get away with it. Right. Right. It's just cosplay at that point of, and it's like, you, you rarely see like a little old lady like open carrying or something like somebody who might actually get like a attack or something. Right. My irony too, is that it's not even that those types of people don't carry. It's that they all concealed carry like the people that, uh, uh, are like like the vulnerable folks that carry and you don't know it. You don't know it. Mm hmm. And that's the smart way to do it. Yeah. Very silly. And I will say like, I have only ever seen this in the suburbs. I never see people walking around the city with a gun strap where it's like, I'm not one of those like, Oh, the cities are dangerous people. Like I don't fuck. I grew up in the city. It's, it's fine. But like, just like you're statistically a lot less likely to have to like defend yourself with force in the suburbs than you are in the city, like calm down. You are in a fucking gas station, 45 minutes outside of the city. The only crime here is that all of your kids are stealing from you to buy hair when calm down. Um, yeah, I don't fucking know. I also, we all know this already, but the whole discourse just gets ridiculous. Anytime there's the mildest sense of pushback, like here in New Mexico, there's been some mild, uh, pushbacks at city and state level against excessive open carry, um, and like businesses are allowed now. It's like been officially ruled because there was like a debate is just a free speech issue or whatever. Uh, but it's like businesses are allowed to say like you can't have a gun in here period. Well, Kennedy, that's not how freedom works businesses. I believe in the constitution and that means that the government should have to be able to tell private businesses how they operate. Yeah, that's, that's how that's perfect. That's what freedom means, uh, uh, and stuff like that, but like every time there's like some shit about this, like they're taking our gut, like nobody's taking your guns away. All that has happened is like, we have a waiting period now, you know, uh, uh, uh, we have like, you know, more extensive background checks and you can't open carry just fucking anywhere you fucking want, like people are allowed to tell you to fuck off with your gun. Bullshit. Like that's all. Nobody's taking your fucking guns away. We just don't want you to fucking bring your guns into our restaurant and then start like popping off because you see somebody having a mild argument with their wife or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Um, okay. So anyways, guns are crazy. Cops are stupid. Let's move on. Uh, Jen. They're so stupid. This, uh, this next story, this might be exciting for you. This is actually a story about another, um, Austin based podcaster. So like one of your, one of your colleagues, one of your peers, you know, uh, this is of course about none other than, uh, not yet friend of the show, maybe future friend of the show, Alex Jones, um, Jen's coworker, uh, Alex Jones this week, uh, a judge officially has ordered that, uh, all of Alex Jones's assets will be, uh, to be liquidated and auctioned off. Now here's the thing. I think I don't understand how this is progressing because I feel like we've already had this story before. I don't, I don't know what's going on with this, but I guess it's like just been officially decided that the date is sometime in November and, uh, I don't know. This is this kind of here's the thing. I was thinking about this, like what could be the outcome because it's like not just the physical assets, but also like, uh, like the not ideological, like, um, what's it called whenever? Like the branding. All that stuff. Like the, the word info wars and his website and his Twitter handle. All of that stuff is up to be as up to be auctioned off as well. So like when I was thinking is that what we'll like, what I think is probably going to happen is some right wing douchebag billionaire is just going to go to the auction and buy all the Alex Jones stuff and then just let him keep doing it. Then I started thinking I'm like, okay, so like there are some, uh, billionaires that are like not good people, but like on the other side of like, you know, the, the, uh, like the right wing ones, I guess not as far right. Um, so then I started thinking I'm like, wait a minute. This could, okay. So who's the one that I could, the right wing guy I could most see being willing to go and bid a couple hundred million dollars to keep Alex Jones in business? It's fucking Elon Musk. Right? Obviously. But then I'm like, wait, who could counter Elon Musk? And then I'm like, wait, what if Alex, what if the entirety of Alex Jones's life comes down to a bidding war between Elon Musk and George Soros? It could happen. It could happen. So gross. I think it's awesome. I think this is what we need. So we need to heal as a country. I'm really excited. I hope it happens. I don't think it will. I hope, uh, I hope that nobody bids. Well, like how much money could that brand even be worth at this point? Well, it's specifically like a name recognition, like I've heard somebody say that like some like, um, like human rights organization could buy info wars and then just put like stuff on that website about, you know, like, you know, suppressed information that the government doesn't want you to see about how there's genocides happening or something like I've seen like that kind of idea proposed where, you know, somebody, you know, just some non-government organization could buy it and use it for good, which that'd be pretty funny if info wars ended up being like a website where you could go and get like, can we put in a bid? We can. Let's start to go. I don't. I don't think this is going to come down to like the $45 that the three of us could come together with. Subscribe to the Patreon. Subscribe. I said, it's hard to go. Even me, I'm thinking like $450. I was thinking too small. We might be able to get it, but the other thing is, is that like a lot of the podcasts I listened to have already joked about like, Oh, we should bid on some of some of his stuff or something. So like these podcasts are bigger than us. I don't think we're going to be able to compete, but you know, we might as well. Here's the thing. There's always the chance that everybody's like, there's no way we're going to win. We're not putting in a bid and then we do win with our $45 bid and, you know, I'm willing to try. I'm willing to try it. I ever tell you Andrew or I can, and he probably not Kennedy, but I tell you my, well, his Andrew stayed here. My, my, I know, sorry. You can stay here too if you're ever in Austin for sure. Did I tell you my Alex Jones story? No. Okay. So when I was in my like mid 20s, so we're talking like 15 plus years ago, I worked at the Alamo draft house in South Austin. And so this is pre sandy hook, like he was always kind of cuckoo, but it was, he was also, he got his start being like 9/11 was an inside job. He was very like anti George Bush, he was very anti the Iraq war when he first started. And so he used to premiere his movies at the Alamo draft house. Oh my God. Yeah. So he wouldn't, he would come in there and like do an intro. And then like while the movie was playing, he would sit out back with all of us and just like drink beers and smoke cigarettes and shoot the shit. So like, I've, I've had beers with Alex Jones, which is absolutely crazy to think now. Um, let me look at this. This is like something. Wait, but how long ago did you say this was like 15 to 18 years ago? Okay. Cause like there was a time where he was like way less crazy seeming. Yes. I mean, he was always very loud and brash. Yeah. When I put it in the context of that, cause like I had a friend that was like really into info wars, like 14, 15 years ago and occasionally like he'd put it on around me. And sometimes I'll be like, I know some of this is bullshit, but like, you know, he'd listen to some of the different shows on there and like it wasn't all bad. Like some of it was like, you know, like genuine like, you know, discussion of like real economic shit, or like just like things like that, it's from like a semi somewhat left. Leaning perspective. We're just like an anti government perspective. Yeah. Like, yeah, just like, uh, uh, at least at, at that time there would be like an openness to like letting a slightly left leaning perspective in like from a guest or things like that to, you know, and like, so it's just like a different kind of vibe back then where it's just like basically info of wars. I think you summed it up was just perfectly, it's just like, it was just an anti government vibe back then. And then he realized where the money really was was in the like far right grift. Um, and I just think he, I don't actually think he even believes his own bullshit. I think definitely not know. Just does this for the money and it fucking backfired on him because he went too far with it. Yeah. I wish him nothing but the worst, but, um, it was just interesting to watch. He was also a really good tipper at the time. Um, probably not anymore now that all his money's gone, but he's tipping you in like some fucking dick pills or something, dick pills or like a microphone that he has to auction off, which I would, I would take a nice new microphone. Alex Jones, if you're listening, um, give me your microphones. Yeah. Um, so yeah, I don't, I don't know. I, it's one of those things that like you see this a lot with Alex Jones and also with Tucker Carlson, where because what they're doing a lot of the time, not all the time, but you know, what they do sometimes is they are talking about the symptoms of living in capitalism. Now the, the problem with this is that those kind of critiques, even if they are poorly motivated or, you know, atrocious, atrocious in their motivations, the critiques they're making are true. So what happens is that like, especially in the earlier days, but well, Tucker's still doing it today. Tucker's talking about like, he doesn't say the, like he's very, very crafty about it. I just listened to the, uh, the show, Tucker Carlson is doing a tour and he had a, a stop where he had Alex Jones on. And like there are a couple times where he is making valid and truthful critiques of capitalism. Now he's not calling it that he's, he's talking about how, you know, like the average worker can't get ahead and stuff like that. Like the thing is, is that that resonates so much with people because we all feel it. Right. But the Democrats don't acknowledge that that is real. They, they tell you everything is fine. And that's why like the Democrats are losing more and more, just like regular people, like I'm not saying, I don't know, I'm actually like trying to say 20 different things that we don't even know. You're totally right. That's what the, the right wing does is they very much have been able to tap into that insecurity that the working class has and these genuine real fears, but instead of being like, and it's your boss's fault. It's, you know, like the, the ownership class, it's immigrants and it's queer people and they're coming to take everything from you. Yeah. I took that $10 from you or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. The reason why your groceries went up, it's not because the people who own the grocery trains were like, I bet we could get more money out of these fucking people. It's because Kamala is a communist. That's exactly why. Yeah. Um, yeah, I don't know, but like I said, fuck Alex Jones, let's move on. So I don't really know too much about how any of this is playing out. There's a really good podcast called, uh, better offline, uh, that this guy, Ed Zitron hosts where he actually talks about like, what is going on with AI and in the tech world and all these bubbles and all this bullshit, but so I don't have like enough to like really go in depth, but I did just want to touch on like, we've been talking for a while about how AI is like kind of bullshit and you, one of the biggest companies that's been leading this AI charge over the last couple of years is open AI, which, uh, you know, like they're been like a number of like, what the fuck is going on? Like they fired Sam Altman, their CEO and then like a bunch of their investors were like, no, bring them back and then you just brought them back like three days later. It's like very weird, very questionable shit going on. So this week, uh, Sam Altman, uh, no, sorry, the three of the like, board members, not board members. What's it called? Like CEO, COO, like those people, it's not the C suite, yeah, three different, uh, executives in open AI all resigned this week separately. And at that same time, Sam Altman announced that he's going to switch from open AI being a nonprofit where he does not take any pay from the company to a for profit company where he's taking, uh, like $10 million or $10 billion or something in shares, um, and that the price of open AI is going to be raised soon to $44 per person. So like all these things are like happening in rapid succession, like firing of top people, company switching from nonprofit to for profit, uh, the price increase. It's like there are so clearly that this is a fucking sham. This company is basically just like overhyped auto correct. It does nothing like it does nothing of the value that anywhere near where it's approaching that it, uh, the value that it actually is like supposedly has. And like, you know, I don't know if this is the, the, the nail in the coffin or whatever, but like it just, to me, it just, it really does feel like this, the, the, the rug is going to get pulled out sooner or later. Like there is no way this, what the fuck does AI do for somebody with a plumbing company? Like they're just like AI will improve your business. How shut up. It's, I mean, an, an open AI is losing money, losing like $5 billion a year. Yeah. Like that's the net, like that's not, oh, that's the, that's the loss before the, you factor in all the prop. No, no, no, no. That is the net. Like it is only been able to be held up because like venture capitalists are dumping billions of dollars in, but like that should stop eventually if it's not getting better or not getting a return, like in theory at least, um, yeah. So I don't know. I just, this is something, I'm going to keep an eye on it. I just wanted to talk about it because like, man, you, like everything, I think back to like Super Bowl ads, like two years ago or three years ago, every Super Bowl ad was for a crypto and then like two of the biggest crypto companies went under and people lost billions of dollars. And then the next year, every super wide was for like NFTs or something. And it's like these things, I know that there's always been bubbles that inflate and then burst, but it feels like they're happening so much faster now. And like AI, I really want to see a bubble burst because like, man, every person who gets online and talks about how good AI is, is such a stupid motherfucking shut up dude. It's like, oh, it can make a three second clip that looks almost like a real movie. Real movies are an hour and a half long, like what are you talking about? Yeah, it's the range. And it's just like the worst part, like it would be more fun if it wasn't so environmentally destructive. Yeah. But the generating part is like, you know, like, it's like, oh, everybody's generating images of Mario doing 911 and it's costing us like bathtubs full of clean water every time and whatever, you know, like, great. That's perfect. That's exactly the kind of problem that we need right now is more using up clean water faster than we can produce clean water again. I did see somebody figure, they did the math on like the, not the environmental cost, but like the actual dollars and cents cost of how much it costs Grock to make in AI image. And you know, you get access to Grock if you sign up for Twitter premium or whatever. And it's only like 50 images or something that eats up like the entire cost of using Grock or the entire cost of what you're paying into Grock. So like there's somebody that was like, I signed up for Twitter premium and have just been like auto generating a bunch of shit so that Elon Musk is actually losing money for having the service. That was awesome. And again, like if it wasn't killing 16 rainforests every minute, like, this would be fun. This would be real fun to just like bleed all these companies for doing this stupid fucking idea. So that's a bummer. But hey, you know what else is a bummer? Now we're talking about Grock while we're talking about free speech while we're talking we are talking about the veins dossier. That's right. JD Vance, they put together a hit sheet on this man. And you know who got their, the grubby little paws on it? Well, it was the fucking Iranians. That's right. I ran his heck in dating games. I hate myself. This week a story came out first, the story was that Iran had hacked the Trump campaign and tried to give that information to Kamala Harris. And so like all these fucking right wing psychopaths were like, look, this is election interference. Oh, you guys cried about Russia interfering for Trump, but this is Iran directly doing it for Kamala blah blah. And it's like the second half of the story is Kamala Harris's campaign refused to take the hacked info and turned it over to authorities like you can't you can't cry about that guys. She said no. The funniest thing about that information like looking over it is that a lot of it is like maybe JD Vance isn't as far right as we thought he was like some of it is like he was actually softer on some labor issues. And like those are supposed to be the the weak points when Trump was vetting him. It's all very dystopian and silly. So this this dossier is literally what the Trump campaign found out like this was the Trump campaigns like JD Vance cheat sheet like that's what is that's what it is. Yeah. Sorry. Kennedy, go ahead. I was going to say it's worth noting that like more and more evidence has come out that just like an incredible amount of JD Vance has been manufactured and that he was basically more of like a center libertarian tech pro a few years ago who was like, yeah, whatever. I don't really care what kind of person you are as long as we're making money here at the San Francisco tech pro firms, you know, kind of vibe. And now he's like menstrual observations. Yeah, he's a psychopath. So you hear about that? No. Were you going to cover that Andrew? No. I have no idea what you're talking about. Please explain, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, JD Vance proposed, uh, perhaps, uh, being open to the idea of menstrual surveillance. Oh my God. To like track people that are looking for abortion care. Yes. Cool. So I guess I thought he was just doing that for fun. So sounds like it. Is this one of those things where the libs are all like, let's mail him our tampons. Cause that seems like the next step there. Here's the thing. I wouldn't trust him with them. Yeah. And why? Why are you cursing us with this? What if he like puts them on the couch and then has like a whole ceremony. It's like a romantic thing. JD Vance like, I can't, I can't, um, I'm kind of frustrated right now. My couch is on a period. That's how JD Vance talks, by the way, that's exactly how he sounds. Thank you. That was an incredible impression. Thank you. Thank you. It's honestly the listeners at home were like, did they get JD Vance on their show? SNL take notes. All right. Hey, JD Vance come on the podcast, but anyways, so after it, you know, after this was in the news that Iran had hacked, uh, some fucking JD Vance dossier, whatever, uh, there was like reporters and news outlets talking about it, but nobody was publishing it. And one, uh, you know, I would say not yet, but hopeful friend of the show, uh, Ken Klippenstein. He was like, we can also, this is out there. I'm going to publish it. And so he put it on Twitter or he put a link to his sub stack on Twitter. The sub stack contained the hacked document or whatever. And then, uh, Elon Musk free speech champion. The absolutist, the freest of speeches, Elon Musk, uh, permanently banned Ken Klippenstein from using Twitter. So, the whole fucking free that speech right now, my God, this speech is so free. You almost have to pay to hear it. Uh, so the, the, I mean, one of the most wild things about this is that like one of the biggest factors in Elon Musk's like deciding to buy Twitter or like at least like one of the, one of the points at which this began is the Hunter Biden laptop story. Now, I mean, they're not exactly the same kind of thing, but like the whole thing with the Hunter Biden laptop story was that Twitter was like, okay, we're going to limit the reach of this one article that contains nudes of the president's son. And so like, you know, Elon Musk made, he made this big stink about how they're trying to hide, you know, information that the public should have. He then like, he did the whole like the Twitter files where he like proved that this was government interference. And it's like, it was literally like Joe Biden's campaign, like sending one email like, hey, can you guys please not put my son's dick on Twitter? That was it. Like there was no like forcing of anything, like the FBI didn't get involved. It was literally just like the campaign being like, come on, guys, like. And so yeah, Elon Musk has then been like, well, now that I'm in charge, this is a real time, her assassination coordinates for the vice president. And he like put this whole fucking crybaby bullshit about like, Oh, this is life and death, like there have already been two attempts on Trump's life. By the way, both Trump supporters. And I don't know. It's just, it's fucking ridiculous. But I did also want to say, have either of you two noticed that for like a week now, Elon Musk has been like every day crying about FAA regulations? Have you seen this? I have him blocked on all my accounts. Oh, I wish that it, I feel like even if I blocked him, he'd still show up because I do not follow him and he is in my feed every third post, I think, you know, whatever. So for the last week or so, I've just been seeing this and like, I didn't think much of it at first, but like now that I've seen it so many times, it's getting funnier and funnier every time. So Elon Musk, he's doing his like SpaceX thing. He wants to, you know, he's trying out new rockets. He's doing all this shit. And like, he keeps posting about how, Oh, SpaceX is being weighed down by all these FAA regulations, and he specifically cites how much paperwork there is multiple times. And like, here's the thing is that like, dude, like nobody forced you to like not just compete with NASA, but like take over for NASA, like that is kind of what you wanted to do. Like you inserted yourself, your company to be like, no, we're going to be the ones that take Americans to space. And now you're crying because there's bureaucracy involved. It's like, dog, you wanted to be NASA and now you're crying that like they make you fill out forms. Shut up. What are you crying about and like read between the lines he's saying like, it's like, he doesn't want to do like environmental protection when he launches rockets and shit like that, you know, I was like, Oh, I should just be, I should just be allowed to kill like endangered birds and whatever. When I launch a rocket, like that should just be like my right as a rocket launching genius. Yeah. Yeah. I know that he doesn't want to hire and pay anybody, but like with all those billions of dollars, just pay someone to do the fucking paperwork. It's really not that complicated. I'm sure he does, but like, it's just like the fact that it takes time that it has to be filed. Yeah. And like, you know, again, this is like, this is Elon Musk is the perfect stupid person because like this is what every, every stupid person, they base their entire politics on just like the simple basic concept of like, I don't like being told what to do. And like, that's kind of like what a lot of like the right wing is these days is just like, I don't like people tell me what to do. I'll tell other people what to do, but I want anybody to tell me what to do. Like that's it. And like that is, that is his whole thing is like, he's like, I don't think that there should be any, anybody that steps in and tells me that if I launch this rocket, 15 million turtles might die. I don't give a fuck. I want to launch my rocket. Fuck turtles. Yeah. So I don't know. That's just, it's fun to see the world's richest man being like, I don't want to do my homework. That's really what it is. Yeah. It's all that. It's just that libertarian like, don't tread on me, but I'll tread on you bullshit. Yeah. And it's just like, this is the shit that got those guys on the submarine killed. Yes. Well, that was a good thing though. You know, you win something you lose some, right? Yeah. But in this case, the consequences will affect a lot more of us than in that case. Yes. And like, these are like poor neighborhoods in like South Texas that they're watching these blue hole in the atmosphere. That was just all of us for a few hours, every single one of us on earth got whatever effects were caused by that. Super radiation. Yeah. Yay. It's good for your tan. Honestly, Marvel needs the PR, their needs to be, okay, moving on, I do want to just talk about Hurricane Helene, which like devastated a lot of coastlines, especially in Florida, and then moved up to the mountains and like completely like just wiped towns off the map in North Carolina and yeah, you know, obviously like our hearts go out to everybody who, you know, has been subjected to this fucking failure of infrastructure and capitalism to protect anybody from the fucking just devastation we are doing to the planet. But like the thing that I've seen this, this is like the first I've seen so much of it, is that like all these, you know, towns in, in, in like North Carolina and a few in Tennessee as well. Every time I've seen a, somebody on like the right talking about this, they're, they're blaming it on weather modification. And this is like something that's kind of like there's always been like the Jewish space laser conspiracy or DARPA or whatever the fuck or, you know, but like as we are seeing intensifying damage as a result of climate change, these, these fucking psychos are now being like, Oh, this isn't just natural. This is manmade, but it's weather modification. They're doing it on purpose. Like this is a new chapter. I, I, I might be wrong, but I haven't seen them like at least pushing so hard that this storm was bad, not because of climate change, but because of like somebody controlling the weather. This is like a, this is a scary new chapter. Actually, this also, this also, I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'm just pointing out that like we actually had a pre precursor to this not that long ago with the fires in Hawaii. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I think like we're starting to see like an increase of this specific type of conspiracy and like the fires in Hawaii represented like that breaking into the mainstream consciousness. And now it's like this one's much bigger. And yeah, it's absolutely just deranged the shit that people are saying about these floods. And meanwhile, I mean, basically every road in Western North Carolina is impassable. Yeah, something like Ashville is like completely cut off, like every highway is broken going into the into the city. Just washed out. We just washed out everywhere. Interstates are gone like inner states, you know, so like, yeah. And every I know I still have friends there used to live there. I'm getting intermittent communication from some of them. Everyone's okay ish that I've talked to so far, but like there are missing people, like numerous missing people, some of them older and stuff. And it doesn't look good for some of these folks also like this people with babies and stuff that like need formula and shit like that. And people can't get what they need. And every day that this goes on, it becomes a greater and greater crisis. And this is like a serious ass national emergency that is not getting adequate attention whatsoever. This is one of the biggest flooding flood damage events of our lifetime in this country. It's unbelievable. The amount of destruction, the number of homes, cars, businesses, et cetera that are just gone and roads, the most importantly, every fucking road is destroyed basically. Yeah, it's it's scary like this town like and I know that there's like a lot of smaller towns that have been even more affected. But like for a city like the Asheville like the greater Asheville area has like a population of like 376,000 people and like the city is cut off from the world right now like there's like, you know, powers out fucking like water is out like there's no road state. The only way in and out of the town is through the air, like, yeah, it's it's it. It's insane. They're literally having to go up to like the tops of these like mountains where people are in like vacation cabins with helicopters to get them out of there because it's like they don't even have supplies in these types of places, you know, like these are people that are just like there for a few days from Florida or whatever and they don't even have shit with them. It's absolutely just like crazy and I mean for me who used to live in Western North Carolina looking at pictures of like places that it's like there's like like familiar sites to me that are just like absolutely have been obliterated. There's no trace that they were even there in these photos. It's freaky as fuck and I will say even more deafening than the silence from, you know, mainstream media about the the devastation taking place here. I would say is the silence from the I'm sorry, is this the president of the United's Joe Biden? No, that can't be right. Joe Biden's not the president anymore. Who's the president? I think he died. Who's the president? We don't have a person. We don't have a person. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So, but like say if I don't know, there was an election coming up in less than two months and one of the states that you are hoping to win experiences a cataclysm. You think you might want to be down there? You think you might want to be a. Okay. But, but he had he had to send another eight billion to kill children in Gaza. So he's doing the best he can, spending the money where it really matters. Okay. Mm hmm. Yeah. You know, you live in your learn. You give and you take. You bend and you break. You. Am I singing a song right now? One told you life anyways, you know, the other other side of like the really bad takes I've seen on this is like smug liberals being like, well, those people shouldn't have voted for Trump then. They shouldn't have voted for Republicans that deny climate change. Maybe this one would have happened to them, which is like the same shit that they did to Texas when we had those massive storms that caused blackouts and people froze to death in their homes. So many liberals were like, well, maybe they shouldn't have voted for Republicans then. And it's, it's so, it's obviously disgusting, but it also is just like another way that these people like divide the working class rather than having solidarity and standing together against what's really hurting us, you know, yeah, yeah, like I feel lucky to have left North Carolina as I saw the politics getting worse, but I don't feel fucking smug about it. I just feel like, wow, I was so blessed that I saw the winds were changing and I had the opportunities in front of me to leave, you know, at the same time, like, it's very lucky to have those things aligned actually. I spent like almost eight years there before I could get the fuck back out. So, you know, the people that are being smug about it is very weird. And it's weird too, because it's like, you're basically doing evangelism just without referencing God, like, you're basically doing like, well, you chose the life of a sinner. And God brought Rex reviews, like, that's that there's no steps between that and what the liberals are doing when they do that shit. Mm hmm. Well, and then like when there's wildfires in California, what is their excuse for that? It's just ignoring like the bigger picture for the sake of, like, an own online. Yeah, I think one of the biggest still because of those sinners in North Carolina who didn't vote hard enough. That's why California's burning our blessed land of California. I think one of the biggest difference between liberals and the left is that the left actually doesn't want bad things to happen to anybody, even if the rich. Well, yeah, yeah, for like maybe like, like, zero point two percent of people who are just like, I'm redeemable fascists who just maybe got to go live on a private island, the trash island and the Pacific Ocean specifically send them to trash island. Yeah, we're going to let them found a nation out there on the trash island there. These are the geniuses of society they'll fucking create the greatest civilization we've ever seen out there in trash land. I believe it. Fair enough. Yeah, and I guess actually, there's a lot of people that are leftists that are just fucking vile anyways. So that's, that's not as true as I would like it to be. But that's me personally, even if somebody's a fucking vile fascist, I don't want them to drown because their government doesn't take care of them. Yeah, but hey, actually a lot of people in North Carolina are fine. Have you heard of something called Jerry Mandarin? We don't have time for this. Let's be fine. I don't respect any man named Jerry. Okay, I do just briefly want to touch on. We are already at an hour. So I don't want to the Jesus Christ do just briefly want to touch on this week. Israel has expanded its war. They are really, really fucking trying to get more to get Lebanon involved. They leveled multiple buildings, including one attack where they fucking leveled six apartment buildings just to try and kill some Hezbollah leader and like, here's the thing. I was thinking about this because, you know, as soon as they started bombing Lebanon, they started talking about human shields and it's like human shield just means person we're willing to blow up. Like that's what that, that's what those words mean. Like that's the term human shield means that is a person who is in our way and we will kill them. Yeah, yep, somebody's not a human shield for living in an apartment. Go fuck yourself, you psychopaths. Yeah, this actually reminds me of, I did a parody post about 9/11 where I described the people, I was like the cowardly use of human shields and real faith and that's good. And that post, like, it's like really old, but like for some reason someone replied to it like, you know, like nine months later, just the other day and was like, I don't think they were human shields and I'm like, dude, wow, so close and yes, so far. Yeah, so we've spent the last year talking about the atrocities, you know, it's not to say it's not worth the time, but we simply don't have the time. But I do just also, there was one other thing that this week, a pro publica story came out that showed that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken deliberately covered up Israeli war crimes. Now we all know Israel's been doing war crimes, but like the way that the State Department works, you do have to like have the appropriate channels actually write the reports before you can like you can't just go off of something you saw on a video, even if we all know that that's what's happening. Like you have to follow the channels, you have to do the the actual steps in order to take the next steps like it's, you know, bureaucracy, that's how it works. So over the last year, there have been two different State Department's reports submitted to Anthony Blinken that showed clearly that Israel was specifically blocking humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza. Now that is something that it is clearly written into our laws. If you are blocking aid, we automatically stop sending you weapons. There's no gray area. That's how the laws written. So these two different reports were sent to Anthony Blinken and he was lied to fucking Congress and was like, no, no, no, they're not doing this. Here's the thing. Oh, I'm sorry. Great. Oh, I thought you said, wait, yeah, no, this is great. This is great. I don't understand how anybody takes anything seriously anymore. Like this is all a fucking joke. The government is a fucking joke. All these laws that are written down on paper are just for whenever you want to follow them. And if you don't, that's fine. Like the kind of shit that like this, this should be a scandal. This should be, oh my God, this guy needs to resign. He's getting indicted. This should be like, oh, something is wrong here, but it's just like, eh, well, we'll have to look into it. I don't know. There was a tweet yesterday or the day before that kind of blew up and somebody was just asking like, what is even the point of the Hague anyway? And like all of the replies to it were like showing like stats that are like, you know, in all the existence of it, it's only been used to prosecute people in Africa and now in like North Africa or like the Middle East. It really just exists to protect Western hegemony as with all of the organizations that we built after the end of World War II, right? Like NATO and the UN all really just exist to continue to protect global capital at the expense of everybody that we fuck over in the global South. It's cool. Love it. Love it. Yeah. Hate it actually. Never mind. No, it's horrible. What? Hey, I'm good. Are we done? No, I got a couple more things. So we I know that we've like talked in the past about how it times it seems like almost that the Democrats kind of don't want to win. And like I was kind of leaning into that more over the last year, but actually since Biden stepped down, I've gotten away from that that like, I don't think Biden would have stepped down if the Democrats truly just didn't care one way or the other about winning or losing the election. And you know, that's like, not that I like the Democrats, but like, I think that that is a good sign that it's like, oh, they actually are kind of trying. But the problem is, this is like the most kind of there's been a few stories this week that I'm like, okay, they they want to win, but like, are they aware of how how you win? So first of all, it was announced this week that all of the protections for like student loan borrowers are lapsing this like in the next week or two. So like, millions of young people in this country are just going to get hit with fucking like, Oh, you have $10,000 in late fees now because you haven't paid this in four years. Is that a good thing to happen right before the election? I don't know. I don't know. It could be could not be. So there is a huge strike that is about to pop off with a longshoreman where this is like people who unload boats to come in. They handle like, I forget the numbers, but like a substantial like maybe more than half of like every product that is purchased in America. Like this is a huge chunk of our economy. If they go on strike, that shuts down and like scarcity will happen so fast. Like we saw this at the beginning of COVID, like there is not a buffer. Like if stuff stops flowing, shit jumps up in price and scarcity. And like the workers are striking for better pay. The bosses are unwilling to give them better pay, but they're also trying to automate away their jobs. So like this is not one of those things where it's like, maybe we just, you know, we settle somewhere in the middle. Like the bosses want to eliminate all of them. So like there's not really much maneuvering there. Right. Would it be good if say half of all goods shot up in price right before the election? I don't know. I don't know. I don't. I don't think that the Democrats care if they win or lose. I think the only reason that Biden was able to be forced to step down is that the donors decided that they wanted him to step down. And if we look at both of the major parties, just as like money laundering or like money creation schemes, like to get, you know, obviously like a certain class of people richer, then they are the ones that are making those decisions, right? So it doesn't really matter to them who wins as long as they can continue that cash flow, right? Yeah. Yeah. I kind of have a third theory, which is that I don't think that the Democrats are united on whether they want to win or not. Which is something that I've been kind of proposing for a while, which is it seems like there's some members of the party that are like really interested in holding power and like Chuck Schumer comes to mind is like he seems to sincerely want the Democrats to hold as much power as possible whenever he talks. Yeah. But then there's people like Nancy Pelosi, who would rather the Democrats be an opposition party and so like I just I don't think I think like the real issue is I think the Republicans are pretty much united in wanting to have power and I think the Democrats are divided in terms of this and I think that's why we see inconsistent shit from them a lot is because they're like I say there's actors within the party that are like, you know, and that's why Nancy Pelosi did finally step in to tell Joe to go even though that's not normally her style is just because the money got threatened and that's all she really cares about but and but she made the most money while Trump was in office that she's ever made. So she'd rather have four more years of Trump and that's the reality. She she only pulled that trigger because she had to the donors were putting the gun to her head. It's the same reason they refused to codify Roe. They make money fundraising off of the threat of it. Yeah. Nancy Pelosi's been making money off of Roe her entire political career. Yes. Higher. Time. Yeah. And they don't have to offer any like substantial changes as they're like, well, we'll we'll do the abortion thing. And it's like, can we please do something about how rent has tripled? No, but do you want abortion or not? Like, okay, sick, great, fine. The other thing is, is that, you know, a lot of people, you know, when the Democratic Party convention happened, a lot of people mentioned something that was strange is that for the first time, and I think like 20 years, the Democrats had removed opposition to the death penalty from their platform. And then this week, the state of Missouri executed a proven innocent man, Marcellus Williams, and the Democrats didn't fucking say anything. Did Joe, did any Democrats say anything about it? I don't. I see it. Bush maybe. And like, that's literally it. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. Not no Democrats, but like, you know, Trump, uh, sorry, Trump is not a Democrat Biden as a Republican. That's you see how I got that mixed up. Yeah. But like Biden, Kamala, nobody, not, not a fucking, you don't know. I mean, it's not that like it was a state crime. So Biden couldn't have pardoned him, but like, you're not going to say anything about a state executing an innocent man, you just leave it. Like if they cared, it would be such a good thing to run on. Look, this is what the Republicans are doing. Look at this Republican governor who insisted on killing this person that even the DA and the victims family, you know, don't think he did it at this point. And yet they, they're so like, I don't know, caught up in this idea that like capital punishment is important. I don't even know like what their logistics are behind like refusing to take a stand on murdering an innocent person. Like it's, you know, the US does this constantly. We're murdering kids overseas all the time. Our cops kill people on the streets all the time, but this is just uniquely like blatant, you know, when it's like there is evidence that like should exonerate this person. And like the fact that the previous governor had even like opened an investigation into considering exonerating him and this guy comes into power and is like, fuck it, we're going to kill him anyway. Like the refusal to even speak out when it's so obvious, I think really kind of just like tells you everything that that party stands for. Truly. And lastly, you know, we've, we're arguing about whether or not the Democrats want to beat Donald Trump. But I think it's pretty clear that there is one person who the Democrats have decided that they absolutely must defeat no matter what. And that is chapel roan. Yes, the 26 year old singer who was like, I'm going to vote for Kamala, but like fuck these people, they are focusing so much they focused, they spent this entire fucking week talking about chapel roan and like, come on, shut the fuck up. It's pathetic. It is. Here's the thing. People are coming up with this, this like fucking blue and on like blue maga bullshit where they're like, Oh, well, her uncle was a Republican. So that means that she might be it's like every single one of our uncles is Republican. Shut up. Yeah. You are Republican. Like every American has a Republican uncle statistically. Yeah, it's just like, come on, even people you wouldn't expect like even like the most marginalized families, there's still a Republican uncle in that family for some reason. Always. There's just always a weird reactionary man family where every other member of the family is a lesbian that adopted somehow you still have a Republican uncle. Yeah. Yeah, it's, it's just, it's pathetic that like it's not even just that you like you have to fucking you can't be a Trump supporter. It's like you can't even criticize Kamala. Even if you're saying I'll still vote for her, like you're not a Republican. You're an uncle, yeah, it's the Republican. She has a Marxist dad that makes her a Marxist, right? Like, yeah. Yeah. So stupid. I don't know. I just, it's shout out to chaperone, you know, she's, she's very young out to my Republican I'm glad she's been a long time. She's like, she's young. So like she doesn't have like the proper terminology. She doesn't like really necessarily like present what she's saying extremely well. But like, you know, we're all, nobody does really. Are you telling me she writes songs and didn't get a political science degree? Yeah, but it seems like this is, it's very, very rare for like the level of celebrity that performs at the VMAs, but like just seemed like her heart's in the right place. And they are trying to get her to kill herself. Like she's had to cancel shows because she's like so overwhelmed that like all of a sudden that she's become like the enemy of the Democratic Party. And you know, like, I don't know how the fuck you deal with that. I hope she can, you know, I hope she comes out on top, but like these people would be happier seeing her quit music than they would seeing Donald Trump lose. Like they're like, oh no, you're not going to come, you're not going to come and say bad things about our president. Yeah, it's fucking pathetic. I hope she embraces becoming an enemy of the Democrats, Chappell Rhone, Reid Lennon, come on the podcast. I just hope that her next album is good because like, man, if she doesn't keep making good music, that's just going to put her in a bad place, the bad position. But like team up with Tom Morello and Roger Waters and just drop some banger anti-capitalist shit. That's don't include Roger Waters. Did you hear that fucking no, what happened? Dark side of the moon remaster album. I'm not talking about his politics. I'm talking about the goddamn dog shit quality music he makes. Oh, no, he has the problem. He has exactly in fact, Roger Waters, greatest sin is that he makes dog shit music. If he made good music, he'd get away with his takes. But because his music is dog shit now, everyone's like, man, we're not putting up with these takes. Man. We're not doing it. This donor hates Pink Floyd. That seems wild. That's a wild take. Oh, I hate Pink Floyd. But again, have you heard what he does now? No, no, absolutely not. I stopped listening to music after 1991. And I will say, you know, while we're on the subject of do they even want to win? Do they know how to win? Two things just from the other side of the aisle. This week, Donald Trump promised to protect TikTok and vaping. Yeah. And here's the thing. He has publicly been extremely opposed to both of those things like within the last five years. Like it's Donald Trump's fault that we've like even started having the band TikTok conversation. And he also came out against vaping like hardcore. And like was the reason that like flavored cartridges for vape Scott band, like why you can't buy mint jewels anymore. But like they just found a way around it by putting them into single serving like lithium ion batteries that you just throw away instead of using the same battery pack and getting a new cartridge. But yeah, he this week has been like, no other president will protect the band like whoa, whoa, whoa, these nicotine companies aren't making enough money. So I don't know, we'll see how that goes. Don't don't like the odds. I've been extremely blackpilled. I don't. The more things that go wrong, the less I just I feel like the Democrats are going to lose the goddamn election is thing. I don't want to vote for Kamala, but I do want her to win. Like if that makes sense, like it doesn't make sense actually, like it does not make sense. Yeah, I don't want her to be president, but I do want Trump to lose. I mean, I want them both to lose, right, right, I, I still stand by. I want Kamala Harris to win because I want to see Hillary Clinton try to be normal about it. That's, that's fair. Yeah, that's, that's my, you know, we get very little out of these federal elections, but that the, the juice of that very would be very sweet. The Hillary coke would be impressive, just, just watching her have meltdown after meltdown on live and try to smile and be happy about it would be beautiful. And I also do think it would be funny to, it would be more ideal for Elon Musk to not get a W, but I don't know the, like I said, like, I don't know exactly what I'm trying to say. But like I said, I don't want Kamala to be the president, but I do want Donald Trump to lose. Like it doesn't, these two things, I can't get both of those things. I understand that. But like it just, I, I'm feeling more and more like the Democrats have fucked this up. Like they should not, it should not be close. Like six, a couple of months ago, everybody was like anybody but Donald Trump or Joe Biden, anybody but them. And then they're like, okay, here's a different person. And for the last month, Kamala has just been like out there being like, if you vote for me, it'll still be Joe Biden, like everything will be the same. It's like, that's, that's the worst idea. Like you can't, what, I don't know. It's still Stein. Come on the podcast. Jill Stein did an event at Deanna's work. So we've, we've basically had Jill Stein on the podcast before. Okay. So enough with that, I do, we have one last bit of news. This is a bit of a, this is a palate cleanser or a palate dirtier actually, once you hear the story. This is a story which I am calling the worst commute yet. This week in Nanning, China, a fundamental piece of infrastructure experienced a catastrophic failure. That piece of infrastructure was a sewage pipe. It burst during a pressure, pressure test and shot a fountain of human waste, 33 feet tall onto the roadway below in what, in what some are calling a poo cano is a lot more people have dash cams in China. There are so many videos of these cars just like going and covered in shit, just raining down from this fucking shit volcano. You know, it's their fault for not voting for Joe Biden. It is the one time I will say, but wait, they did vote for Joe. Who voted, who did China vote for? President G, I assume. Not my president. So, I don't know, hug your loved ones, make sure, watch out for poop volcanoes. And yeah. That's our good news of the week. That's our good news of the week is the people got covered in shit, at least they were in their cars. And that is how Laura, the low the bar is, the good news of the week is a bunch of people got pooped on. Yeah. So anyways, Jen, thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me, y'all. Yeah, it's been, it's been fun. It's good to see you. I got my second appearance challenge coin. Yeah. Yeah. Deanna was absent both times. I feel like she's mad at me and I don't know why. You know, we'll have to ask her about it. We'll have to ask her. Deanna, come on my podcast, let's talk about it. Work it out on the remix. Hell yeah. Why don't you tell folks again, where to find the show and if you got anything else to plug. Yeah. So, you know, follow me on the, the Twitters, the X, the everything app at Key Boston Nasty. You can find me on TikTok. I am currently doing weekly videos as I read capital. Yes, that, that capital, the big book. Just trying to explain it in little bite size pieces. I'm a big.nasty08 on TikTok. And then you can find my fun new podcast on all of your, you know, podcast applications. It's called how the red was one. That's one with a W and it's just a podcast about organizing in the south Texas fascism and how to fight back. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. You got anything? You can find me on a street corner somewhere. And if you do approach cautiously, I scare easily. Thank you. Fair enough. I just have one plug. If you are in the Toronto area, this in a couple weeks, October, October 11th, I will be performing at the punks can't laugh festival. I am doing a set at something called the bovine sex club in Toronto. Shit all right. So yeah, I don't know if we have any Canadian listeners. I don't know if Canada is even real, but if you do live in Toronto, come to my show. I will be there. We will have fun. It is going to, I'm going to do really bad. I haven't done stand up in a long time. I have done zero shows since like March, it's going to be rough, but you know what? We're going to have fun. So come to that if you live in Toronto or you know what, fly up from wherever Toronto is an international city, you can get there. For everything else. There's MasterCard. There's MasterCard. Tune in again next week for more bad news. [Music] [BLANK_AUDIO]