I've Had It - Are We Great Yet?
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Ready, one, two, three.
Patriots, gay, triots, they triots, black, trots, brown triots, and all of the triple
Trumpers and anybody on the planet that actually still supports Trump can do what, Pumps?
Welcome to America's top DEI podcast, trying to change the minds of voters one episode at a time.
Palm, sort of you had it with?
Okay, what I've had it with are people that trap you with the text and then immediately call you.
So they know you have your phone in your hand.
So if you ignore it, you're just like the biggest dick on the planet.
It's like the minute the bubbles start, then they call you or the minute it gets delivered.
They call you.
And I just, I don't, I'm sure it's my codependency, but I'm just like, I can't ignore it at this point because they know I have my phone.
in my hand and I'm typing to them.
Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one. I think I both hate this and do this.
I think this is one of those where I've had it with it, but I also participate in the grievance.
Because sometimes I have to tell somebody something. And, you know, it's hard to get tone in text.
Like sometimes when I'm writing out of text, I notice I'm like using four exclamation points.
And then I'm like backtrack, backtrack, backtrack.
Am I really that enthusiastic about this?
And then I just put the period.
And then I'm like, does that make me sound like a cunt?
You know, is it one exclamation point?
So sometimes if I text somebody something and then they respond, I'm like, I have to tell them in person.
Like I want the voice to voice contact.
But I too have been in this trap where somebody has texted me and I just want to respond really
quick to clear out my text, you know, text that need to be returned.
and then I get zapped with the call.
And depending on how much I like the person will I answer.
If it's a person I absolutely 100% don't want to talk to,
I have no problem saying, so sorry, can't chat right now, can only text.
I see that's, I haven't thought of that.
But I will say this about you because I thought about that.
You and I kind of do that sometimes.
But here's the difference.
You can call and say, hey, do you know where the red lipstick is?
Yes, da-da-da-da.
Okay, bye.
Like it's not prolonged.
The problem with these people is there are the prolongers.
They want to talk about superfluous shit.
If it was just a question in and out, let's do this, I don't care.
But it's never the people that are efficient.
It's always the people that just prolong everything.
Have you ever found yourself like I'll be getting a lot of texts like a Sunday?
And I'm like, I'm going to pretend like I'm not using my phone today.
And so I'm like not responding to the text thinking I'll respond to them like much later in the evening because I don't want to get involved in a belabored texting.
And it's stupid shit.
Somebody sending me something and then the conversation goes on and I don't really enjoy text conversations at all.
I don't get any joy out of belabored text conversations.
So I'm ignoring like five text messages, right?
So then I get over to Instagram and it's like here's a video of Rafa Nadal winning the 2022.
Roland Garros. I'm like, double tap. Here's Punch the Monkey fighting back. And I'm like,
double tap. And it's like, and here's the resistance and somebody making fun of Trump.
And I'm like, double tap. And they've all been posted within an hour. And then I'm like,
oh, shit. Everybody knows that I'm not returning the text, that I'm over liking shit on
Instagram. And I'm so busted. And that's the thing about the smartphone. Anonymity and avoidance.
is damn near impossible.
No, I agree.
I don't do that because I,
when I'm doing all that tap,
like sometimes I can't,
I just have to hit the heart.
Like the double tap still escapes me.
But yes, I do that while I'm trying to ignore people.
Here's what I hate.
And this happens to me all the time with my ex-husband.
I will send a text.
It will be ignored.
But then there will be a text stream with one of my children.
and it's rapid response.
So I know I'm being ignored.
Why are you texting your ex-husband?
About like, okay, this is what I paid for tuition or whatever.
Like the reimbursement.
We're just talking about old times and love.
But you know, you know that he like, that particular person enjoys more than anything,
having some drama where there is no drama.
Yeah.
And so he's dying for you to say, why didn't you text?
me back. He's dying. I know. I just, which back in the day I would have, but now I'm just like, no,
no, no, no, no, no, you're right. It's just, it's, it's, it's, it's trying to lure me in. So that's a
little bit of growth. Yeah. Little. Yeah. I think, I think that the final coup de grace and the
growth would be to have your children text and say, you owe mom, X amount. Hey, by the way, mom said,
a complete blackout of all communication. Like a total.
block. Yes. If anybody deserves a total block from you, it's that MFER. No, no question about it,
but I think it would be a show up at my door. Oh, God. Can you imagine anything worse than that?
I really can't. No. I really can't. We're in the middle of a Trump presidency. Listener,
that's how bad. That situation is. It's so undesirable. It's the torture.
I uh god that's it's something all right welcome oh no i need to tell you what i've had it
all right i've had it with my husband misgendering my french bulldogs so for years he misgendered
my cat kitsky the late kitsky she died as everybody knows after a long lifelong battle with asthma
and diabetes she lived to 18 um so kitsky is a girl
Josh for the entirety of her life referred to Kiski as he, him pronouns.
And so my husband and I just went on vacation together and we took our dogs because our
children are in college.
And I just honestly, dogs are fantastic to travel with.
And he kept calling Chachaw, who is female, him and he, he, him pronouns.
And I'm just like, she's five.
We've had her for five years.
she is a girl.
Like you need to use the correct pronouns with our dogs.
And the same thing with Tabby.
He'll be like, she needs to take her medicine.
I'm like, we have had him for 10 years and the misgendering.
And it's like this, I don't, I don't understand what it's about.
I don't know why you would want to misgender a dog or a cat.
It's just so bizarre to me.
But he does it all the time.
And I can tell that, you know, I can tell that the dog.
don't like it. They're very offended. When I first got Tilly, I kept calling her him or he. And my daughter
came on, I mean, she was on me every second about the misgendering. And I've gotten really, I mean,
I don't do it anymore. I'm like, how are my boys and my girl? But if I said, come here,
boys, no, you're not misgendering her. And I was like, okay, okay. So I was going to say with Josh,
it was a new thing that the evidence suggests this goes on a long time.
There's really just no excuse for it at this point.
What's your excuse for misgendering?
Because I had two boys.
So like the first month that I had Tilly, I kept referring to as him.
Like I need to take him outside.
And it was like, you know, just in the very beginning.
I'm saying it.
Yeah.
I don't know what I don't know what Josh's deal is.
other than we did make it to Mexico on this trip.
And, you know, he has just such prolonged hypochondria.
Yeah, we didn't have any ear issues.
Headaches seem to have subsided.
He did get some rogue blood test recently.
And there was some marker in the number of something.
Okay, like this seems a little low.
So of course he's on chat GPT, which by the way, listener, Josh and I both canceled our chat GPT.
And I filled out the survey as to why I canceled it.
And I put Sam Altman is a fascist collaborator because there was an other.
Good for you.
Amma Altman is a fascist collaborator.
And I joined Anthropic who's fighting with the Department of Defense.
And I'm now a clawed user.
But this was before we fired chat GPT.
And listener, everybody should boycott chat GPT because Sam Altman is a pussy and a fascist collaborator.
But anyway, so it's something about kidneys or something.
And he brought it up once and I kind of just side-eyed him.
And we went through eight days in Mexico without any hypochondria, but something terrible happened.
So, you know, Josh has been working out like crazy.
Like he works out all the time.
Lifts weights all the time, drinks, creatine, protein powders, all that shit, right?
And he looks really good.
I mean, he's just turned 57.
He looks the best he's looked.
I mean, looks fantastic.
Sober, clean living, the whole nine.
So we're walking down the beach one day.
And this couple, a rather older gentleman with a younger weekend, Trist, it looked like, on his arm.
And he kind of says to Josh, and this guy had on like a swim top cover up.
So must not be super proud of his like a rash guard.
He wasn't super proud of his upper body, I would say.
I could, because she was in like a skimpy little bikini.
And he walks by Josh and he goes, I think maybe you ought to work out more, bro?
Because Josh was no bill.
So it was a compliment, right?
Did he take it there?
Immediately.
He took it that way.
He immediately picked up what they put down.
Okay.
And since that incident, I've had to relive that story five times with five different people.
And he starts it off by saying, why don't you ask Jennifer what the guy said to me on the beach?
It's like, it's like passing the narcissism.
Like he wants to be a narcissism, but he wants to be a narcissist, but he wants to pass it to me for me to
bring up. So I've had it with that. I've had it with the misgendering. We are doing better on the
hypochondri of front. So that's growth. I'm really happy about that. And I just wish that
nobody would give Josh a compliment anymore. And it's not that I'm a mean person,
which people can make an argument for that. It's that I have to live with the aftermath of that
compliment. Right. He doesn't just say, oh my gosh, thank you so much. That's so nice. And that's it.
That's it. It's over. That compliment lives on. I mean, just.
Just two days ago, he brought it up.
He was in New York visiting me and he brought it up to a girl at the gym.
My chef, Jennifer, tell you what the guy said to me on the beach.
And I was just like, why don't you shut the fuck up?
How about that?
How about we shut the fuck up?
It was two weeks ago.
Let's move on from it.
Here's the deal.
The minute you said, the guy said that, I knew exactly what you were thinking because it's
true.
Like it really is true, reliving it, bringing it
up. That's kind of funny that he's, uh, now he's brought you in to be part of the narcissist
instead of just saying, oh yeah, this guy said I looked great and super built. Now you're a part of it.
That's an interesting twist.
It's just to torture me. I mean, it's just, I mean, the, the, because then he dies laughing because
he knows he's doing it to be provocative of a reaction for me that it's just like, shut the fuck
up. And then he's dying laughing. All right. Welcome to. I've had it. I'm Jennifer.
I'm Angie.
Kylie, how's it going?
It's going good.
Okay, before we move forward, I would like to mention listener.
Kylie today has on a fleece jacket with it.
It looks like a little doily lace style trim, very cute, super cute, very lesbian
chic.
The last two to three times we were on this stream three times, we, Kylie looks like a million bucks.
She's in this like, uh,
silk chiffon blouse with this tie on.
And each time we run out of time and we're unable to film, I've had it.
And she looks like a million bucks, right?
So then the next day she puts on the same outfit because she wants all the Gaytriots,
the Lesh Triots, the Black Triots, the Brown Triots, the Patriots, even fucking Magas.
She wants everyone to see how spectacularly cunty her outfit is.
And each time we're unable to film the episode due to time restraints.
scheduling restrictions, et cetera.
And so have you given up on the outfit?
Yes, yeah.
I refused to put it on today,
but only because I was worried,
it would mean something would go wrong.
Like every time I put that shirt on,
the third time was pretty humiliating.
I was putting it on.
I just was like, the episode's not gonna happen.
And I'm gonna look like a loser sitting in my outfit
for the third time.
And so I was like, I'm not fucking putting it on today.
And look, we're filming.
but it really is it's so good and it will make it to air it's a great outfit you look great in it
you look really funny great you would you would break the uh lezernet the lesser net I really would
break the lezernet I mean it would be like I think it could be a really good positive thing
for lesbians that outfit and it on the worldwide web
The third time I had it on, I don't know about you, but when I repeat an outfit, I like it a little bit less each time.
Totally.
First time I felt just the hottest have ever looked.
Seth even threw me a compliment.
Second time, I was like, okay, we're going to get this in there.
Third time, I sat there and I was just like, this is fucking ugly.
I hate the shirt.
I hate it.
Yeah.
I really hate that about me, too.
I have that same affliction, and it's so stupid.
Like, if I wear something, then I'm like, well, I've already worn it before.
and that's just so shallow and pretentious.
And I just have to, I came to terms with the fact like 20 years ago, just like you're just
shallow and pretentious, Jennifer.
You just are both of those things.
Like you just need to accept it.
Like you are shallow, you are pretentious, you are fall prey to the worst pitfalls of capitalism.
And I've been to a lot of therapy and on a lot of various different issues.
That's just not something I've been able to really fully rectify yet as the shallow pretentious
nature in my character. I really haven't. I've tried that I really like things. I do. Like I like
clothes. I like I really like those things. And I wish I could be one of these people. It's like,
it doesn't matter what I wear. Pumps used to be like that for years. She'd be like, I don't care
what I wear. She never cared. She'd show up in a robe in public, a robe in slippers, never gave
a fuck. And I was just like, I just like clothes. I just love fashion.
I love it.
I love all different facets of fashion.
Yeah.
One of my things is when you were saying that, like I don't remember what I wear.
I'm afraid, I'm on the opposite spectrum.
I feel like I wear the same thing over and over and over again because I just don't remember.
So just call me out on that if you notice it because I kind of starting to think I wear
the same thing over and over.
I've started to wear the same thing over and over.
I've started to because I moved to New York and I didn't move all my
clothes and so I've been trying to embrace the like this I've probably worn 10 times and I'm
just like embracing it like I'm gonna wear the sweater a bunch this season and that's just the
end of it but I do feel better and I do feel like a better person when I wear something new each day
and that's a fucking terrible admission to make it's really terrible but I'm just gonna own it
like I'm 51 years old trying to do what I can do but if every day I put on a brand new outfit
I'd be fucking invincible I just I don't know what I'm just I don't know what I'm
I couldn't tackle. I really don't. Like, if I could have somebody kind of like, here's your new outfit
of the day and then they come and take it after that, I'd be like, good riddance. See you later.
And that's just a horrible shout. I mean, I'm telling you, I'm really shallow and pretentious.
I really am. It's a horrible character defect. Horrible.
Jen, you fixed so much. I just think, like, let's let you have this one. Yeah, I just, I think of all
the character defects, I'd rather have that than a lot of the ones I have. I mean,
Oh, I have a lot of others too.
This is just one that's been consistent my whole life.
There's this, that movie, we watch it every Christmas.
I think it's called The Family Man and it has Nicholas Cajun.
Yes.
And so it's kind of like a Charles Dickens thing where he goes and he gets a glimpse
of what his life would be like if he wasn't this rich hedge fund prick, blah, blah.
And so he goes to the mall and he tries on like a Zenia suit.
and he puts it on and he goes,
it's amazing how much better of a person I feel like I am wearing this suit.
It's just like horrible.
And I completely related to his character.
Like I totally get that.
Like I feel like a better person and a great fucking outfit.
I feel better.
Not only do I look at it.
It's so terrible.
It's just so fucking awful, but I totally have it.
I would argue that I,
I'm a better employee.
Like I work harder.
My brain is sharper.
I feel smarter.
I feel better.
It's true.
I understand.
I totally get it.
Okay.
In lieu of a review, I have an email that a distraught listener has sent us.
They have a grievance.
And it says,
Dear Jennifer and Pumps, a month ago,
all my office colleagues had to do a color personality test
and then discuss why we are the way we are.
Noose to prize to me, I'm a thinker, not a cheerleader.
Last week, we all had to do a team building activity
where we took a personality test.
And guess where I ended up?
Same result.
Today, I just got an email invite to another team building event
that is an escape room.
Not two weeks ago, I said to my coworkers
that I'd rather shoot myself in the head than do an escape room.
I'm 65.
I'm looking to retire in a couple of years.
In the 43 years that I've been a working,
professional. I've done every color test, personality test, ropes course, icebreaker, team building,
morale building, how to manage a team, two truce and a lie, pot luck, lunch and learn,
trust exercise, not to mention office door decorating contests, pumpkin carvings, chili cookoffs,
and birthday parties. Can I just work? I don't have enough time left in my career to learn anything
new. I don't care about other people's personality, color, because clearly they don't care about
mine, please, I've had it.
That's a nightmare.
I have so many questions about that.
That is just such a nightmare.
You hear these stories about all these just exhausting, team building bullshit things.
And then what your color is.
And it's just like, go to work, do your job sometimes you like people at work, sometimes
you don't like people at work.
You know who the superficial people at work are.
You know who the real ones are.
And you just navigate through it.
And that's just is what it is.
There's no need to have all of these circle jerks.
It's just such a miserable experience.
And I would say in a work environment, I'm far more a thinker than I am a cheerleader, far more.
Like I'm always more thinking than I am cheerleading because I find a lot of cheerleading so superficial.
I find it just like this feigned bullshit support instead of, especially in a work environment,
everything just needs to be business.
You just have to cut through all of the superficiality of feelings and get to what are we doing here?
What are our objectives?
Let's get them done and then go live our real lives outside from this job.
That's what my whole question is.
Why would they want to spend all this time on that kind of shit?
Because it seems like a thinker would just be exactly what you wanted.
We're not fucking around.
We're going to do our job.
We're going to leave.
All these activities, I think it's like makes it harder to work.
work. I just don't understand why anybody would do this. Well, I think in her and the emailers
point, she has no choice. No, I know, but as an employer, why would you want all this? Because you
get these focus groups that come in and do all this bullshit stuff. And I think this comes from
I'm telling you, this all starts with gender reveal parties. Whenever they started the gender
the reveal parties and we started celebrating humans in utero.
Then we started inventing a lot more activities to do.
We started inventing kindergarten graduation, preschool graduation, lower school graduation.
I mean, like all of this shit to where it just, it builds and builds and builds to where
the whole life is just a superficial house of cards.
And then you're doing trust falls and color stuff at work.
Nothing means, it means nothing.
If her color would have been a completely different color, she still has a
the same fucking job with the same set of employees. All of this has to do with over celebrating,
overthinking, over analyzing, not being efficient. This is an inefficient society. Yeah, I agree.
Okay, and I've got a new story for you. Jen, you just came back from Mexico. You were talking about
your dogs. There's a lot of new paperwork you have to have. And so there's this story going viral
of this woman that went to an airport with her dog. And then I'll let the video play. It'll explain it.
We're back with a dog left alone at the airport in Las Vegas.
Video shows the woman leaving the golden doodle mini poodle at a JetBlue ticket counter earlier this month.
Authorities say she didn't have the right documents to travel with it as a service dog.
She is now facing animal abandonment, among other charges.
The dog, now known as JetBlue, is at a rescue facility awaiting adoption.
And I have a good news update before you respond.
the dog was adopted by the officer that rescued him.
So I saw this online, and I just can't imagine that you would leave your dog at the airport.
And I watched the video multiple times.
And the woman has a Stanley-esque style cup in her hands at the ticket counter.
And I think that if you go back to our first episodes and look at the case that we're making,
for what is a precursor to fuckery?
What is a precursor to making horrible life choices?
What is a slippery slope to MAGA?
What is a slippery slope to being a dog abuser?
You can go back to doing trust falls at the office.
You can go back to the inception of this podcast.
And it is gender reveal parties, Stanley Cups.
And there's this through line to all of these things that I oppose fundamentally.
And so I just felt so bad for JetBlue.
and I'm so glad that JetBlue, number one, I'm glad that JetBlue was left because, yeah, JetBlue
needed a new owner.
But I just think about how her feelings must have been hurt at the airport.
And I'm so glad that that officer found her and adopted her.
And I saw a picture of the officer with his family and he has like kids and, you know,
doodles are like so family oriented.
But if you look at that video, she clearly has a thermos Stanley Cup style.
beverage in her hands. I just, I just eagle, I hawked that out. Do you see it, Kylie?
Oh yeah. It's orange, right? Yeah. She's got a big, yep. First thing I noticed right
out of the gates. I knew that, I mean, right when I saw it, I was like she got a cup in her hand at
the airport, not supposed to have cups at the airport. And if you're traveling with your
cup and you're pouring your water out in the trash can and then you're filling up your cup on the
plane, it's just too much. Stop with the performative hydration. I knew that dog was fucked. The moment
I saw that cup and a dog on a leash.
I fucking knew it.
I knew it.
Also, if I'm in an airport and something's wrong and my dog can't come with me,
I can't go on the trip.
That's it.
Question.
Think about this.
She took her cup and left her dog.
She took the cup and left the dogs.
And everybody thinks I'm a raving lunatic calling out the Stanley Cup.
and the performative hydrators.
But think about that.
She had a choice.
Leave the cup.
Leave the dog.
She left the dog.
She took the cup.
I bet you, you know what?
I bet you that bitch is still dehydrated.
You know who I think also probably started out with a cup?
Christy Noam.
I was just going to say that.
Yeah. Look where that ended up.
Look. That dog got off easy, JetBlue.
Yeah, you're right.
No question.
There's no question.
Oh my God.
So I read this.
story. We need to dive into this for IHIP news. Okay, you know, there was the story about
Christy Knoem and the jet. The blanket left on the jet. Yes. Well, some loose lips,
sink ships are leaking a story that something far more embarrassing was left on the plane
than the blanket. And so I'm thinking since she, Christy Knoem, the Department of Homeland Security
cosplayer, she's screwing Corey Lewandowski, even though they're both married and Bible thumpers
and all this shit, right? I bet it's a bag full of sex toys or something.
That's what I thought when you said that. I was like butt plugs, butt balls, dildo. Yeah,
all of it. You know what? And I bet she, I mean, this is pretty graphic,
but I'm just going to go and say it because fuck it, we're in Trump's second term.
I bet she pegs Corey.
One million.
Don't you think she's the pegger?
Yeah.
I bet that's her.
I bet she shot a dog.
So I bet then when it gets to,
I'm a big he woman, all that.
Yeah.
I completely think so.
She's a peggard.
Yeah.
She's a peggar for sure.
But here's the thing.
There's a new book coming out about their affair.
And I just want to say on behalf of the I've had it podcast team,
I'm going to read it.
I am all...
Who's writing the book?
It's like a journalist
that's been following
their affair and their interaction.
Get them on the pod.
I need to find out when it's releasing.
They just did an excerpt of it
and I was like, I am immediately
buying that book.
Immediately.
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You've seen his videos all over.
and Instagram amassing billions of views and building one of the most engaged audiences in country music with 3.6 million TikTok followers and 1.3 million on Instagram, which is more than us, which really pisses me off because we're old and competitive.
Brian has captured the attention of major media from Rolling Stone to Don Lemon to none other than I've had it.
and we would like to welcome Brian Andrews to I've had it.
Brian, how are you?
Good.
How are you guys?
Good.
I am so excited to be here.
I'm so happy to have you.
So excited to have you.
You know, you're really kicking ass on social media.
Yeah, trying, trying.
Let me ask you that.
So you're a country singer.
Yeah.
There was a country song that they sang at the,
other the MAGA Super Bowl.
Yeah.
That it was like, I got it.
Kiss my fish.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
I know what you're talking about.
I've had it with that fucking bullshit, too.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
It's like I want to mow my yard.
Yeah.
Drink my beer.
Yeah.
The whole premise of the song really is not like that crazy.
It's basically just saying, you know, I want to be left alone.
But my problem with that.
is like, you know, you don't get to say, I just want to be left alone and wipe my hands clean
when you see all this shit is going to shit finally.
You know what I mean?
Like, you know, the premise of I just want to be left alone is what everybody wants.
But you don't get to say, I just want to be left alone when you see and support the people
who are now intruding on other people's lives.
So when you see them not being left alone, you ought to be able to stand up and say, hey,
that's bullshit.
it. Well, and I would argue before I kick this interview to pump, Brian, because I've got to bounce.
But they say they want to be left alone, but they want to jump all up in trans people's lives,
gay people's lives, queer people's life, drag queens people's lives, what books people can
check out from the library. So they actually don't want to be left alone. They just want to be all up
in other people's shit. And that's what pisses me off about the hypocrisy of that type of white
person. Yeah, exactly. It's the, you know, like I said, you don't get to just wipe your hands
clean and be like, oh, shit, they're really messing with other marginalized communities and everything.
I didn't really want that, but this looks a lot worse than I thought it was. So I'm just going to
pretend like I didn't have nothing to fucking do with it and stay over here in my lane. And that's
bullshit. You don't get to do that when you ask for this. Right. Pons. Okay, Brian, you and I,
I feel like we're separated at birth.
Our backstory is so similar.
And our journeys growing up.
So, and I'm in Oklahoma.
You were raised in Missouri.
Both my folks are from real small towns.
And my grandpa on my mom's side worked for General Motors for 30 years.
So he was a union Democrat.
And my dad grew up in a household where they were farmers and worked and stuff.
And a lot of farmers back in the day were always Democrats,
because they, you know, Democrats helped out the farm.
So they, they, I come from Democratic family, but I just grew up in a town where pretty much nobody is a Democrat.
You know what I mean?
Like, especially in the last 16 years, I mean, it's like, I know, I know people that agree with me on a lot of things and like pretty much everything, really.
And when, if you were to ask them point blank, like, hey, was you can consider yourself a liberal or a Democrat?
they'd say, oh, no, I'm an independent.
Even though everything they stand for and, like, their values align with being on the left,
they will still say I'm an independent because they just do not want to be associated.
It's so taboo to be associated with being a liberal or a leftist or a Democrat in a small town that, you know,
they just won't say I'm a Democrat.
Well, people, I feel like on the coast don't understand how much religion is tied up with being a Republican in a place like Oklahoma.
or Missouri like Bible Belt area you it would be like a sin almost to be a Democrat.
I mean I was raised super conservative super Republican super super churchy.
And what I what I have found out is all the teachings that I was taught about Jesus and how
he handled people and how he accepted people and did for everyone. What I grew up with,
was that was the message, but we do the opposite.
And we're able to sit and judge other people and the dissonance that I had.
And I think it's so important to have a MAGA-coated person like you, like I'm MAGA-a-coded.
It's right.
I mean, you know, a person like you that comes in and talks about that so openly and with such conviction.
So I've seen several interviews with you and I was just blown away.
So if you'd kind of address that for me.
Yeah, I think, I mean, you would, like, even in a small town now, you've run across people, especially in my hometown.
I'm sure that if you ask them, like, you know, why do you vote Republican?
And, you know, one of their deep-rooted issues is, like, I vote Republican because I'm supposed to because I'm a Christian, right?
So, like, Christianity is very closely correlated with the conservative party, which for me is weird because it seems like the further, it's true for both ways.
the further I get into my faith, the further left I get.
And the further I get into my values, the more religious I get.
So I mean, because I think to me, Christ was a brown-skinned socialist who loved immigrants and, you know, was feeding the poor, healing the sick, you know.
I mean, like the whole premise of Jesus was that like everybody's supposed to be taken care of, right?
But what you see in the Republican Party specifically, I think in the United States is that like it's very individualistic.
So in their mind, it's like, well, why should I have to pay more in taxes if, you know, somebody else that's lazy and doesn't want to get a job just needs health insurance or, you know, SNAP benefits or whatever.
Why should I have to pay for that out of my check when I get up and go to work for 60 hours a week?
And on the paper, that seems like logical, but it's not.
I mean, like, these people are willingly paying more for privatized health care and private health insurance and things like that so that people can't get access, right, to health care.
So that's what I'm saying.
Like, they're willing to pay more out of pocket so only they can have health insurance when if they just would pay for, or if we just had a program like single pay or health care, they would end up paying less for insurance or in taxes for insurance, you know, like for health care.
and everybody else would be able to have access to health care too.
So the mindset is really backwards to me because it's like,
I just don't understand how you're willing to actually pay more so people will be able to die
versus paying left or less and have the same access to all the health care you need
and people will still be able to go to the emergency room and not have to file for bankruptcy.
Here's the thing.
the person that you describe like lazy, why should I have to pay for it?
That was how I grew up, but in a very, very religious household.
And that screws with your mind, all the mixed messages.
Okay, I have to ask you.
I forgot because Jennifer always does it.
Brian Andrews, phenom.
What have you had it with?
I have had it.
Oh, I sent these.
I can't remember.
I've got him here.
Yeah, let me.
Christians and country music.
Yeah, that's a big thing for me because like I feel like I'm, you know, I'm a Christian myself and I feel like as a Christian, it's my responsibility to call things out when I see them, you know?
So like especially in country music, it's like this so close correlation and you see it all the time like a vote against Donald Trump is a vote against God.
And shit like that to me is just.
It's blasphemous.
Right?
I mean, like you're not, first of all, like the conservative party is ultra good at being like,
oh, a vote against or a vote against Donald Trump is a vote against God.
And then they'll come out and say, well, Jesus doesn't have a political party.
Right.
And it's like, yeah, but you just used him as a weapon to prop your political party up.
So like when I feel, that's what people come at me all the time.
They're like, oh, well, you're using Jesus for your side too.
And I'm like, no, dude, I'm just using Jesus as a defense because,
you used him as a weapon first.
So I'm just using them as a way to say, hey, if you're going to use Jesus as a weapon,
Jesus wouldn't do this.
You know what I'm saying?
So, I mean, for me, like that's where, especially like in country music, it's ultra conservative
and ultra like the, not just the audience, but even some people in the industry and everything
are very, very religious.
And that's okay.
I don't have a problem with people being Christian.
I have a problem with people like using Christianity to shield them from a
or to bury their head in the sand when it comes to like what's happening in the world and things like that.
I think that's the big thing right there.
Like you see not just in country music, but everywhere.
Like in the Pan Bondi, the congressional hearing she just did, right?
Jared Masco was asked her, you know, like, you know, what are you doing with the Epstein files and all this stuff?
But then he goes on a tangent about, or he goes on to describe like the Trump Bible and holds up the Trump Bible.
and it gets a laugh and stuff like that.
And so what she does is she doesn't,
all while wearing a big cross around her neck,
she says, well, I'm not even going to dignify that with a response
because you just made fun of the Bible.
And so in that moment, that's why people don't like Christians, right?
That's why they have a bad view of Christians,
because she used her Christianity right there as a shield to hide herself from accountability.
No, I completely agree.
And I also, like, for me, having grown up that way,
lived that way as an adult for a long time.
I was able to take the entitlement of I'm special, I'm judgmental, wrapped in being white,
wrapped in being upper middle class and say, well, that doesn't apply to me.
I don't have to think about those things.
I get to bury my head in the sand.
I get to claim no responsibility because I have a personal relationship.
It's kind of like Christian narcissism.
And so do you see that a lot?
Because I was that person, Brian.
Yes.
Yeah, it's absolutely.
You see it all the time.
And like that's the thing.
Like a lot of people, even if they're just like voting for Donald Trump or like propping
up some of the ideologies or policy or whatever like that, but they don't really, they don't
really like support that guy or they're not really that in tune with politics or anything like
that or they don't pay attention to politics that much, they'll literally say that.
You know, like, well, all I know is Jesus is the way, right?
And I have a problem with that because it's like, yet, okay, you can say Jesus is the way all you want, but Jesus calls you to be interactive with the world around you, right?
You know, so like he calls you to, like, call other people out when they're using certain things to be weapons against people, or enact bad policy or, you know, like to feed the poor and heal the sick and things like that.
Jesus literally doesn't want you to bury your head in the sand and say, oh, well, he's the way.
And I know so many people that are like, well, if people would just accept Christ into their heart, this world would be so much better off.
And I'm like, if everybody buried their head in the sand the way that you do, it would be a lot more of a shit store because they'd be able to do what.
That's the problem we're in now, is that people don't care about politics enough that they're able to just enact whatever policy they want and people are not paying attention.
right so like marginalized communities are being hurt first and then eventually it comes for everybody
and it's too late to speak out because there's no one left to tell okay so i have to ask you okay
here's you're brian andrews you're a country music singer your views a lot different than what
the stereotype is for country music you come out and say this is how i feel you write songs about it
to be scared that you were putting your career at risk, my guess. Yeah. Yeah, I definitely was.
I mean, especially being like when I've, I mean, even now, but especially when I first started
talking about it, you know, three months or four months ago, like I had never really talked
about politics before. I mean, I had touched on it really, but nothing crazy. And so when I,
when I really started diving deep into it, I was very, I guess just, I knew it was a risk, right?
So I knew that like, but I also knew that I felt this way.
And, you know, like I didn't want to alienate anybody that I already had in my audience.
But at the same time, like, who am I going to alienate?
People that already don't listen to my music.
You know what I mean?
I was a small enough artist that it was like I can pave the road that I'm building right now.
And so for me, I think it was a little bit easier than maybe, you know, like some of the bigger artists if they feel this way and stuff like that.
Because they really have built these giant fan bases and everything.
and they actually will be alienating people.
But I knew that if I felt this way, I wasn't alone, right, from a small town and things like that.
And, you know, you see the blue dots and red states and stuff like that everywhere.
And, you know, even in my small town, there's a lot more Democrats than you think there are.
So, you know, I mean, it's, it was weird, but at first, but as soon as I got into it, I was like, you know what?
Fuck it.
I don't care no more.
Because, I mean, I can't.
I can I it was too late for me to start speaking up anyways right you know what I'm saying so like I can't
you know if I would if I would have cared or if I had spoke up like I do now before the election
maybe we'd have had a different result and so like that's a guilt that I bitter you know what I mean
and I'm not going to make that fucking same mistake twice in a lifetime well so what's interesting
to me it's quite the contrary you have blown up
Yeah.
Like every corner of the internet, you, is your face with your views.
So when you, I'm sure you have trolls and haters.
Of course you do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How, when you found out that then now you have, I think your song went like number one on
every platform.
It was an idea.
Were you surprised by the reaction?
Yeah, I was.
I mean, it was a pleasant surprise, right?
And that was like the first time I'd ever made.
billboard so I mean it was it was pretty insane but I mean with every that was a very weird
moment because I hadn't experienced like like mascale like cheers but I also hadn't experienced mass scale
like hate right so like at the like for all the you know I had an NBC article and Huff Post
did an article and like a you know billboard and everything like that it was all good and then I
turned my face and it was
you know Fox News doing an article
and you know some of these
huge talking talking heads on
Twitter and stuff like
or X or whatever and so
seeing that it was like it was
just very
eye opening because I also started getting
the DMs and everything like that and it's hard to not
look at that stuff right
but now that we're
getting into it more like I'm about to drop the song
on Friday called
Are We Great Yet? So
I don't give a fuck no more.
You know what I mean?
If they're going to talk their shit, they're going to talk to shit.
Because here's the thing.
You know, I used to think like, damn, these people really are, some of these people really are coming for me.
You know what I mean?
And like it sucks because like I want music to feel like an inclusive thing.
But for so long, country music hasn't been inclusive.
Right.
So that was my main goal.
You know, anyway, it's like if they're going to fucking cut the gate off, fuck you.
I'll build the fucking gate right next to it.
You know what I mean?
So for me, it was, you know, I just had, it was something I had to do.
And like, I don't give a shit.
Like I said, when I come out with this song, Are We Great Yet?
I've been in Nashville for the last week and a half writing protest songs, so I don't give a fuck.
You know what I mean?
It's, it is what it is.
And I think, like I said, it's too loud for me to ignore.
And this is my road in country music.
I'm going to build this bitch, Brick brought brick because country music used to stand up to injustice.
And, like, I think that's why you've seen such a positive reaction to, like, this whole movement anyways, is that,
you know, there's people that have stopped listening to country music as a whole because,
you know, the artist in it or whatever, like the ideology behind it and everything like that
that are now coming back to it and, you know, because they're like, oh, shit, not everybody's
like that in country music, you know what I mean? So I don't know. For me, it was a cool experience
because I was like, well, fuck them. You know what I mean? It was just like finally like cuffs off,
like who gives it shit we're just going to fucking say how we feel and it worked and like that's what
i'm most proud of to be honest is that you know i was able to take a chance on something and it worked
you know and it was able i was able to just authentically be who i am you know and how i was
raised and everything like that and you know the parents i had you know were just great and they've
been there 100% of the way like i think when i was first putting out the older i get i was like
talking to my dad and he was i was like i don't know if i should put this out and he was
like, well, would you rather not make it because you just weren't good enough and people just
didn't like your music or whatever?
Or would you rather not make it because you said something like you spoke the truth and
people just weren't ready to hear it yet.
And I chose the latter and it worked out because people were ready to hear it.
And they've been begging for it, to be honest.
Okay, I have had it.
I've had it with people using religion as a hall pass to control everyone else's lives.
I've had it with politicians pretending the Constitution is optional when it comes to church and state.
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our world famous game had it or hit it oh my god welcome to pat it or hit it i would hit it
I had it.
I hit it every day, sometimes twice a day.
So the first thing I'm going to ask you about is, and this is, I know the answer to this, but ice.
Yeah, had it.
Had it.
Up to fucking here.
It's unbelievable.
Like, we're breaking our own laws.
Yeah.
No, it's insane.
I mean, to see even people condoning it, this is what fucking rubs me so raw.
that I'm from a small town and I see like all these like, oh, don't fucking touch my guns.
Like, don't tread on me guys all the fucking time.
But when they see the federal government shooting people in the fucking streets of their own
fucking cities, they ain't got a fucking thing to say.
Again, it's the hypocrisy.
So it basically boils down to as long as it's our guns and we're shooting the people
that we hate, then we're for it.
But if it's your guns and your.
one of the people we hate you don't get to have the same rights i mean that's at the end of the day
and here's the deal brian i believe for me and i as a christian i was able to uh you know growing up
until i deconstructed my faith i was able to do that to people it doesn't look pretty on you
but it looks pretty on me and i'm entitled to have more and i look back on that and i look back on that
And I am so ashamed of that behavior and the lack of empathy.
But it just, it's jarring to see so many people that support an agency that let's take out the murdering of U.S. citizens.
They're piling people up.
They're taking them to concentration camps.
You hear story after story.
They're not getting medical care.
They have kids.
Shitting in buckets.
Shitting in buckets.
They're on alligator alcatraz.
as they're selling merch.
So it's like this movement is feeding cruelty and hatred in people.
Yeah, it's the it's the point.
Like that's what I'm saying.
We call these people bootlickers all the time, right?
But they don't feel like bootlickers.
They feel like they're the fucking boot and they like it.
Right.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm trying so hard to get people in small towns to be like, dude, this is your fucking
moment.
like this is what you've been saying don't tread on me for you know what I'm saying
your grandparents didn't go run shining these hills to say yehaw fuck the law so you could get
down on your fucking knees and fucking kiss their boots you know I mean like it's insane to me
that these people are like condoning all this bullshit but like I said they they feel like
since they voted for it they feel the power and they finally like being able to feel like
they're higher up on the fucking totem pool than somebody but what I'm trying to drill into their
head is that they ain't going to write don't kill Trump voters on the bullets they used to shoot us with.
Right.
Yeah.
So you're right on that.
Okay.
How did it or hit it?
The MAGA takeover of mainstream media.
Uh, fucking had it.
Yeah.
I mean, like, that's, that's how I feel like how it feels watching MAGA takeover, um,
media and like spaces like the manosphere and things.
like that is how I felt watching
like this ultra-conservative movement
and Christian nationalism take over country
music for the last 20 years.
You know what I'm saying? So I mean
watching it happen everywhere
now is like, okay, everybody's kind of
finally seeing what the fuck I'm seeing, right?
You know, because I mean, and country music, and I don't
think it was necessarily all Toby Keith's fault, but like
he wrote these very ultra-patriotic
songs after 9-11 and things like that,
you know, we'll stick a boot up your ass to see American
way type shit. And I love those songs.
And I, because I mean, after 9-11,
and everybody was so unified and everything like that.
And it was just this moment where everybody could be like, we're strong.
You know what I mean?
They might have got us that day, but we're going to come back and beat their ass, right?
You know, but like the whole premise of like that movement has just been feeding this like
and stoking the flames of this movement that's like, now we can control everything.
We can have it all and we can make everybody do what the fuck we want.
You know what I'm saying?
like with with country music I think it's gotten really like that's why you see the you know the al dines of the world's waving that american flag at these shows and saying if you don't like the way this country is get the fuck out of here you know or just leave and shit like that when in reality the reason I speak out about like the most American thing you can do is use your First Amendment right to speak out against the injustices and things like that that you see in America right so I mean I'm right like I'm I'm I feel like a patriot because I'm speaking out I'm I feel like a patriot because I'm speaking out I'm I
feel like a patriot because it's my responsibility as an American to hold up the idea of a land
that was free for everybody in it. That's why I always say America 250 years ago made a deal with
us that this land would be the freest place on the earth and I'm here to make sure she holds up
her end of the fucking bargain. I love it. I love it. Okay. How did her hit it? Billionaires.
Fucking had it. That's that's my number one fucking public enemy. Eat the fucking rich.
Is it amazing to you when you get in the Epstein files and then you hear shit like Peter Thiel says and Elon Musk the shit he posts?
I'm like, what is it with being a billionaire that just makes you fucking sociopathic?
They're the worst fucking people on the planet.
To have that much money and power to fucking not help anybody with it is fucking insane.
And they'll go on these fucking tent like Elon Musk would be like, oh yeah, I sent Starlink to Ukraine or whatever to help people.
It's like, great, you did one fucking thing.
You could end world hunger right now.
Yeah.
you know what I mean like that that's that's the like people don't understand that's what I mean like
people like conservatives like even in my hometowns and stuff like that they'll be like well
you know they do work for their money you don't think they should be fucking compensated for their
money and I'm like maybe they should just work be worth like two or three billion dollars
not fucking 700 like do you understand how much like that's what I'm saying to these people do you
understand how much a trillion fucking dollars is you can buy every NFL team NHL team MLB team
and NBA team twice and still have 200 billion dollars
left over. Yeah, it's crazy. At first, I just thought it was, you know, like the submersible
guys, I was just like, billionaires just get bored. But then they just get into this thing where
they think they're smarter than everyone. And they think everybody should be subservient to them
and their ideas. Jennifer makes a great point all the time is that in the United States, we equate
like smart and all the positive attributes to a billionaire.
And I was guilty of that with Elon Musk.
Like before, you know, like 15 years ago, I would have said he's really smart because I didn't know.
I knew he had a, you know, a green car company.
So I was like, okay, great.
And now I'm like, this is one of the most diabolical fuckers on the planet.
Yeah.
Literally all he does is fucking hoard his money.
Fucking he's a white supremacist.
Oh, totally.
hit Sig Haas on a fucking inauguration stage and then tells he it's a fucking Roman
saluter autistic sim.
It's crazy.
What do you think about him showing up with it with the black guy in the Oval Office?
I mean, I didn't even see that, to be honest with you.
I've pretty much tried to tune out Elon Musk.
As soon as I saw the first post he made not too long ago about, he re-shared somebody's tweet
that said something about like,
when minorities become the majority, white people will be like enslaved or some shit like that.
I was like, this fucking idiot is literally out here just fucking peddling shit so that white people feel empowered to hate people of color even more.
Totally. Here's my thing. What I want to scream about is when Donald Trump calls people of color racists and this whole regime is,
is the most racist.
Like you have a judge saying you cannot pull historical facts
from federal buildings and parks
because you don't like them.
Yes.
It's the whitewashing of history.
That definition has never made more sense to me now.
And I'm, it just, it enrages me that people actually defend it.
Yeah. I mean, here's, let's just go through the fucking timeline here.
like Donald Trump was found guilty of like not renting to people of color.
Yes.
In his apartment buildings.
This is before he was even president.
Then while he becomes president,
says that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is bad for white people,
shares a meme of the first African-American president and his wife on monkeys.
Yeah.
That is AI generated and then tries to remove history from Philadelphia Parks and museums talking about slavery.
And you're trying to tell me this motherfucker ain't racist?
this is what I mean.
People are like, oh, well, racism doesn't exist anymore.
It's 2026.
Bull fucking shit.
I think it's worse.
Yeah.
And like people, that's what I'm saying.
People don't want, like, people of color don't want you to be like a white
apologists.
They don't want you to come out here.
And like when J.D.
Vance says that dumb shit, like, oh, you don't have to apologize for being white anymore.
Nobody has fucking asked you to apologize for being white.
They just want you to acknowledge that you are and that they might have a different
experience in America than you have based on one thing, their skin color.
Yeah.
No, I, and I'm super guilty of being raised in, like, I'm sure Missouri is the same way.
It's very homogenous where I live.
It's segregated.
Growing up, I didn't realize how the difference in the treatment, like police lawful, you know, like police stuff, like overresting, overcharging, all of those things of the black community.
because I was surrounded by the privilege of being white.
And I, again, I'm ashamed of that.
I'm ashamed that when those things came to my attention as an adult,
that I didn't stand up immediately because I just let it slide
or didn't want to offend anybody, that kind of stuff.
And it's like, we are never, ever going to fulfill our goals as a nation
if we don't acknowledge an attempt to repair the kind of racism that the black community has faced forever.
Yeah, exactly.
And it's really just like, this is why I have an extreme problem with people who are willing to ignore history,
like, or just be like, oh, it's not like it was back then or whatever.
Like the similarities aren't really there.
And it's like, yeah, they fucking are.
And the problem with you not acknowledging that they are is that you're leading us right down the fucking path that led them there back.
then, you know what I'm saying? And so like for me, you know, I watched one of my creator
friends, his name is Judah on TikTok all the time. His handle is both of these, but he is
great. He's an African-American creator, and he said something right after the Alex Pretty
shooting that really resonated with me because it's true, and I'm guilty of this as well.
He said, you know, I just can't help but think that because there was mass outrage,
obviously after the pretty shooting and the Renee good shootings and stuff like that as there should have been
but he's like I can't help but think that if we just would have cared this much when the victims were
only black and brown then none of this would have happened and he's 100% right about that and I
think about that quite a bit because I'm like dude that's so fucking true and like for me that's why
I speak out on like it's especially during like black history month and things like that because
the current president obviously doesn't think that we even need a Black History Month.
You know what I'm saying?
So when I'm trying to educate myself about those things, I have to be able to speak out
about the injustice that I see now because I have to believe before I go to sleep at night
or I won't sleep at night that I would have stood up back then during the Jim Crow era.
Or, you know, when I watched if I was alive during Rosa Parks or things like that,
I have to believe that I would have stood up then too and stood in solidarity with those people
so that they could have the freedoms that they wanted and needed.
And they should have been given, right, from the inception of this country, right?
You know, and so that's what I'm saying.
Like, when I think of things, I have to be able to reconcile it with myself
that I would have stood up back then because the truth is,
if I don't say nothing now when they're, like,
trying to find a legal way to sit around these things and, like,
trying to fool the public and stuff like that.
If I don't speak up now, then I don't think I would have then.
You know, so I'm like, God.
Yeah, I agree with you.
How old are you?
29.
See, I was not near as smart or wise or insightful.
I'm 56.
And I came to all of these things like so late in my adulthood.
And I'm listening to you thinking, how much better of a person would I've been if I would have pulled my head out of my ass at 29?
But no, it was just shoved right up in that ass.
Okay, last one, Brian Adams.
And then I want you to talk about your new song.
How did we hit it, the United States of America?
That's a hard one because I still have a lot of pride for this country.
I think I've hit it because I think we're going to start seeing real Patriots stand up.
And I think we're going to start seeing people fight for the idea.
like I said, of a land that is free for everybody in it.
I think that, you know, as bad as this movement is,
I think that our story doesn't stop here.
You know what I mean?
And like it certainly doesn't stop for me, you know?
So I think that when I think about if people are going to start rising up and voting,
we've already seen that in some special elections, you know, and things like that.
So I think the pendulum is obviously going to swing regardless because it always does.
But I think you're going to see one of the massive,
massive swings we've seen in the last, you know, 40, 50 years because this shit is so crazy, right?
I mean, we just, we just bombed Iran, you know, less than a week ago.
And I know people in my hometown that were like, we don't need wars.
You know what I'm saying?
We don't need endless wars.
We need to fix ourselves and stuff like that.
So I think you're starting to see even like Republicans in small towns that are starting to go.
Yeah, maybe this isn't the vibe.
and, you know, not only that, but doing other countries bidding for them, right?
So, I mean, like, I think that's a big problem for a lot of conservatives.
Yeah.
So, I mean, stuff like that, I think that I've hit it with America because I think, or the United States,
because I think we're going to come back from this.
And I think it'll take a lot of work.
But for me, like, the way that I've been feeling shut out and things like that.
And also in country music is that it's,
It's our time.
And I feel pride in the fact that I'm going to be able to use my platforms and, you know, try
to organize people and get people together and unite together around the one common goal
of a land that should be free for everybody in it.
I love it.
Okay.
Tell us where we can find you, people that are new to you.
How do we find you?
Yeah.
You can find me anywhere you listen to music at Brian Andrews, like Spotify, Apple Music, all this stuff.
But on social media, all my handles are at Brian Andrews music.
So just anywhere, anywhere you get all your information or do your social media, you know,
I know that TikTok is kind of, you know, on a downhill.
It's taken over by MAGA.
Yeah, yeah.
So, which is so heartbreaking, to be honest with you, because, I mean, TikTok used to be like the
video town square, I guess, you know, like where people could just come on and like they just
literally just put a camera to your face and you're you're making content that somebody hasn't
seen before you know and you can find your niche audiences and really build the community and stuff
like that but it feels like now it's so maga adjacent that it's hard it's hard you know
especially as a liberal country artist you know it's hard to make content on there but i mean
instagram i think is is doing a lot better all the problem is all these companies are owned by
billionaires who have given money or support Donald Trump.
Yeah.
No, it's really scary.
When you see the list of it, it kind of takes your breath away.
Well, good luck with your new song release.
Yeah.
I wish you nothing but the best in the future.
I think your voice is so important.
Thank you for coming on.
We appreciate it.
And I just best of luck on everything.
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