I've Had It - Schlapp My Ass and Call Me a Patriot
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So are we supposed to start the podcast?
Ready, one, two, three.
Patriots, gay, traits, they treats, black, trots, brown triots, and any of the triots, we leave off.
We love you.
And all of the fascists can do what, Pumps?
All right, Pumps, what have you had it with?
Okay, what I've had it with is pharmaceutical companies.
You would think I would be talking about the Sacklers, but not today.
This is a different pharmaceutical company.
So my dog, Tilly, the one who I've had it with about the overnights, who hasn't done it since then, so I think maybe she's cured.
Okay, she's been on antibiotics for two weeks.
She has another two weeks to go because she has an upper respiratory infection.
So when we switch the antibiotics, they give me the pills.
Here's how the pills come.
No perforation.
You cannot pop the pill out of the teeth.
tinfoil deal. It's like triple reinforced tinfoil. So for me to access the medication that I give my dog
every day, twice a day, I have to cut the top, cut all around, cut the top. I have to take my
Zit tools and dig out the pill before I can give it to her. And my thought is they don't want their
products to be taken. They want to manufacture antibiotics. They wanted to be prescribed, but they don't want
anybody to benefit because they don't want you to be able to take a pill out of the packaging. It has been
driving me crazy twice a day. I fucking had it. If you're going to make something that you know is going to be
dispensed, make it accessible without scissors and zip tools. This is the exact same thing when our kids were
little and trying to open up these toys and assemble them on Christmas Eve to have them ready under
the tree. It's like, did somebody have a roundtable meeting where it's like, okay, here's how
we're going to do packaging? And then people overdo it, kind of like these Apple updates where they're
making things more and more difficult. The opening of packages or medications in your case is so
incredibly frustrating because they make it incredibly difficult to do it, to penetrate the product that
you paid for to use it and access it. Yeah, it blows my mind. It completely blows my mind. And I said
something to the vet when she had her last checkout. I was like, what the fuck is going on? Do they not
want the dogs to take the medicine? And she said, I started prescribing the generic, but it's the
exact same packaging. So that's a whole collusion we haven't even talked about. But the whole thing is
that this is bullshit. It shouldn't be this hard. I have so many problems with four. I have so many problems
with pharmaceutical companies and the way the United States,
the whole health care system, I could do a whole episode on it.
The amount of people that take prescription medications that they don't need is insane.
The amount of people that it's so insane, you go to a doctor and the doctor has been hustled
and whined and dined by a pharmaceutical rep to sell their product.
and then a person goes in and the immediate thing is here, here's a pill you need to take.
The evidence that people are way over-medicated in America is just unbelievable.
And that's all for profit.
And then I don't know.
I'm sure they're running some racket in the dog and cat veterinary clinic, just like they are with the people.
But the pill popping in the United States of America, whether it be animal or human being,
is just I could do a whole, an entire episode on it.
I could furthermore do an entire episode on how physicians in the United States,
their first thing is to pull out their pad and a pen and write a script instead of actually
treating and be preventative and talk about lifestyle issues and things that are more sustainable.
But oftentimes in the United States, you have a pill and then it has all of these side effects.
And then there's a whole new market.
Right.
where there's a new drug that helps you mitigate the side effects from the first pill.
It's insane.
It is just utterly insane.
America pill popping culture is nuts.
It's nuts.
All right.
I have had it with, as you all know, I'm in a long lifetime battle with email terrorism.
Yeah.
And it's something that I battle every day, about three or four times a day.
and my email address gets on list that I didn't sign up for.
I purchased something only to be punished by the retailer.
By then they harassed me and terrorized me via email.
So I recently purchased something for my new apartment from a company.
And I know when I checked out,
it was like sign up for our savings, email terrorism blast.
And I was like, uncheck, want a part of this.
despite the unchecking, they've continued, here's a survey on the item you bought.
Here's this, here's that, here's this, here's that, here's that.
So I go in, I'm in the trenches taking grenades from this company, right?
I'm talking, I'm like eight emails deep after I purchased like some towel hooks,
something incredibly pedestrian, right?
Something you would never fucking write a review about unless you're a complete whack job,
bored to tears.
So I unsubscribe.
And then it pops up, thank you.
We're sorry to see you go.
Thank you for unsubscribing.
This will take 48 hours to update, which is total bullshit and a pathological lie.
And I want to start a class action lawsuit in my spare time.
Because other companies you can unsubscribe and it's immediate.
Right.
This is a racket where they are belaboring the terrorism for,
So in those 48 hours, after I declined the survey, I don't want to write a review, I don't want to give it a star rating, I don't want to talk about the product, I don't want, I wanted to buy it and then it, I wanted it to end.
I unsubscribe.
And in the ensuing 48 hours, six emails per day, 12 additional nukes to my inbox.
That's bad.
Yeah.
That's really bad.
especially because like you said, I have had that happen a million times.
Here's what I hate is you put the unsubscribe when you're checking out, but they have your email for billing.
So then they keep emailing you.
So you unsubscribe twice.
I have never in my life heard of being unsubscribe.
Unsubscribing, it'll take 48 hours.
48 hours to update.
48 hours to update.
And that was a complete lie because they just wanted to terrorize me more.
Yeah, I just want to see if they can hook you.
Yeah, they are.
A lot of these retailers are abusive husbands and the consumers are the battered wives.
I want some appreciation from corporate America who I have zero faith in it all.
But at least like if we don't want to be emailed, don't email us.
Like isn't it such a gift that somebody could just, hi, I want your service.
Here's the money.
Let's end it.
but everything's a hustle.
Everything's a shakedown.
Everything's a harassment.
And it makes me hate the digital world completely because we have all been reduced to our data.
There's no question about that.
Let me ask you this.
Will you ever buy anything from that company again?
If I need it, I probably will.
Okay.
See, that's the problem.
That's the, that's, I'm just being honest.
I would love to say, no, I am never going to shop at that company again.
But if I go to look for a product and it's like, you know, a four-week lead time on another website,
but this particular company has it immediately within a day.
The instant gratification person and me, impulsive, short-sighted retail therapy junkie out the wazoo,
I will be like tap the vein, hit it and I'll be like, roll up my sleeves.
Come on, let's go with the emails.
I'm ready.
I'm locked and loaded.
Let's go.
At least this time you're ready.
I've done that so many times.
I am never buying from them again ever, ever, ever, ever, ever.
Ever.
And the next time.
Like a cheap suit.
Yeah.
It's always a cave.
All right.
Welcome to I've had it.
I'm Jennifer.
I'm Angie.
Kylie.
Hi.
Hi.
You guys, I have a had it that I've been thinking about.
Oh, let's hear it.
That's just a good spin.
I know.
And I think I'm going to step in it.
Okay.
So I might sound like a boomer asshole.
I've been like, do I bring it up?
So we'll just work through it on it.
Okay.
Okay.
So, you know, I wear a lot of tight.
white ribbed tank tops.
You do too. And those are called
wife beaters. Wife beaters.
I was at a fundraising event. I was talking to this
nice guy. He was talking about a place
he likes to shop and he was like, yeah, I was there
and I bought a bunch of wife pleasers and I really
like them. And it took my brain a second.
I said, did you say wife pleasers?
And he said, yeah, that's what you're supposed to call them now.
I don't want to fucking call it
a wife pleaser.
And I don't think I'm going to. And that might
make me sound maga. But I think
But that's fucking stupid.
And it's been bothering me.
That would bother me.
What do you think?
I'm team Kylie.
Thank you.
I mean, we're not going to be politically correct about a tank top for fuck's sake.
I mean, it's just this is the thing.
Like then a person on the other end of this is going to go.
Domestic violence and assault is horrible.
And I completely agree.
It's absolutely terrible.
This is a figure of speech.
And I just think sometimes the.
over policing of all of the language.
In some instances, it's helpful.
But sometimes I think it goes on steroids
and then it makes everybody hate the left
because nobody likes a hall monitor.
Nobody likes a little snitch, a little tattletail.
And so I call them wife beaters.
I wear wife beaters.
They've been a staple in my wardrobe for,
for decades.
I'm going to continue to call them wife beaters.
We're probably all three going to get canceled.
And I just want to say it's been great working with this.
This was fun.
Yeah.
And I just want to say we do oppose with everything in us, domestic violence, vote accordingly.
All of our platform, you know, we want to prop up women as best we can.
But I just, those little micro conversations that happen, like people lecturing us about calling
J.D. Vance a pussy.
Don't use that word. I'm just like,
I give up. I just, I give
the fuck up.
And don't you think if you,
like, if you want to, you call out
wife beaters, now they're wife pleasers.
And you can't call J.D. Vance a pussy
and all that shit. Then it diminishes
when something is
really offensive. If we're hall
monitoring on everything,
then when we are
voraciously against
something, it's diminished because it's like,
they're mad about wife pleasers versus wife be here, kind of, or am I off based on that?
No, I see it.
I just, I think that sometimes stuff just goes a little bit too far.
And I think these are the things that are said in spaces where people want to be politically engaged,
but their life isn't directly impacted.
by a lot of the things that Republican politics do.
And I think a lot of this is born out of white latte liberal culture.
And calling that shirt a wife beater is just kind of, I mean, I don't know.
I know what's happening on the other end of this right now as we say this.
I just, I know it.
I'm just not a petty person about shit like this.
I agree.
I'm Tim Kiley on this.
I just, I can't call it a wife pleaser.
That's my thing.
Come up with a better name if we have to fix it.
Wife pleaser is really stupid to me.
I'm not saying that.
That's every, I mean, and that's like, what's a wife pleaser?
What's that?
Okay, I have a story I want to run by you in this kind of the same vein.
Okay.
So yesterday I'm sitting at a light.
It's like three o'clock.
All of a sudden, I'm in the turn line.
all of a sudden this woman is coming,
she is going the opposite direction
and she has her blinker on.
So she's wanting to turn into our lane
and go into a Starbucks is what I ultimately find out.
This woman, it's too,
I'm the lane closest to the entrance.
There's another lane.
Then there's her going the other direction.
She fucking lays on that horn.
And it's just like,
I don't even know what's happening.
I'm like, who'd she hung up?
out. Is it me? Da-da-da-da. Well, I realize that she wants the people in my lane and the lane
next to me to give her an opening into the Starbucks. So I'm just like, whatever. So as I'm,
my first thing is, go fuck yourself, you entitled cat. That's my first thought. Then as I'm driving,
I kind of think, I kind of dig it. I mean, she's just like, fuck you. I need my coffee.
I don't care if everybody in their cars is inconvenienced, is put out, that I'm honking at him, that I look like an asshole.
I want my fucking coffee and I want it now.
So then I kind of like was like, I don't know how I land on it.
What do you think?
I don't like if if somebody did that to me and I'm there and she wanted to get through, I would try to facilitate the person getting through.
I did.
Yeah.
So I wouldn't be mad about that.
at all. I'd be like, okay, she's trying to get through and then I would, would I do that,
probably not. I probably wouldn't do that. I would like go, I would go down and turn around so I
could make a right turn in it because I don't like to inconvenience people, but on the same
token, I wouldn't feel inconvenienced if she did that. I'd be like, oh, oh, gotcha. And I'd
kind of like wave them through. Yeah, I did that too, but I was the only one that could, that
moved. So I don't know. I just had such mixed emotion.
Okay, I've got a couple of comments from Spotify.
We can fly through here on recent episodes the past few weeks.
Roxy says, well, slap my ass and call me a patriot.
This episode was fucking hilarious.
And I like that saying, Jen, I think you could kind of fit that into your vocabulary.
Ian says, can we get Mima on unused.
Date, please?
Which I think, yes.
That's the obvious answer.
Yes.
And then Tiffany says, I'm late to the party, but y'all missed a huge.
huge opportunity by not saying black cock down. Oh my God. Lady,
you did. Oh, my God. Tiffany. Tiffany, that is, I'm so mad that we did black cock down.
Oh my God. Lady Graham. That is so good. I love, love, love irreverent humor like that.
And I love blasphemy. Both of those things I love so much.
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Okay, we have some news stories here. A video from a book signing event is going viral and we keep
getting tagged in it. Here is a clip from Apostle Catherine Crick's book signing event in Texas.
Play the clip.
Maybe you can be facing your life so powerful.
Okay. For those of you that are listening, these people are like convulsing and falling over after this gal touches them.
And it's just a very pedestrian-looking white woman that's touching them.
She doesn't look like a wizard or, she looks like a woman that's kind of from Texas.
In America, because of the hunger.
We're talking in tongues.
I was going to say, I hear tongue talking.
Jesus Christ.
These fucking crazy Christians.
And I mean, and then the right is going to go after us.
I would like to welcome the Fox News producers, the New York Post producers, the right-wing media far, like, crack cocaine level.
ecosystem that will watch our podcast every day for content.
Here's what I have to say about that.
America has a crazy Christian problem.
Those people are off their fucking rockers and are not contributing members to society.
That is beyond the pale.
They need to be in straight jackets and padded cells.
Clip it, post it, go viral, put me on the front page.
I don't give a fuck.
I lived in the Bible Belt.
These people are nuts and they need help.
They need to get off the church.
tit where it is actually them giving to the church over and over and over and over and over again
and the church enables them to be crazy dipshits clip it jesse run with it swing for the fences
america has a crazy christian problem and that in that videos exhibit a of one million of those
and when i'm seeing all that i'm like that's basically there one step behind that what goes on
in the tongue talking circles in the fucking White House parking lot.
And then the prayer circles before this is going on in the highest levels of government.
And it's the dumbest fucking people on the planet that are clearly misguided mentally.
I don't know what's going on there, but it's not healthy.
There's something else that gets the right wing wound up.
Religious addiction.
They clipped me all up when I said that there's such a thing called religious addiction.
And it is a very real thing.
Catherine Crick is a self-described apostle, faith leader, and demon removal specialist who leads five-fold church in Los Angeles.
So to pumps this point that these people are dumb, there is no such thing as a faith healer or a demon removal specialist.
Those are made up things that is a bullshit job.
These are not real professions.
What she is is a thief and a liar.
She's lying to these people and stealing their money.
According to her own official biography, she came to L.A. to pursue acting.
When that failed, she then pivoted to becoming a Christian singer.
In 2016, a prophet told her that God had selected her to be an apostle who would perform shocking miracles.
And I just want to say that conversation never took place.
So she abandoned music and opened a church.
Here is an actual paragraph from her own biography page.
Mike Johnson's got some competition with this thing.
All right.
Pop this up.
God has called you to be an apostle of Jesus Christ.
You were called to reach the nations of God.
We'll do many shocking miracles through you.
Upon hearing that word, she felt like Moses, unqualified,
unable to speak and unable to picture herself ministering.
But she had faith that God would equip her.
And she wanted to obey him above all else.
She obeyed God's call and put her music career pursuit aside.
Okay, everything that is shred to you, she is a compulsive liar.
She is a fucking liar.
This conversation never took place.
She never felt like Moses.
All of that is made up bullshit.
I don't have evidence to tell you it's made up, but I know it with everything in me.
Well, the evidence is that that's not real, in my opinion.
Here's the thing.
Here's what she did.
She went out there.
She couldn't be an actress.
And so she's like, what's the best and fastest way to make a fuck ton of money, not pay taxes, put my acting skills to use and have zero fucking accountability?
I know.
I'll start a church.
And she wasn't wrong.
She sells an eight session course in removing demons.
So she's marketing the demon removal.
So here's, you two can be a demon removal specialist.
All you have to do is buy her eight session course.
And you too could add that to your Instagram profile.
She says miracles are free, but money is part of obedience.
She has cured many people on the spot for many demons, such as autism,
homosexuality, high blood pressure.
pre-diabetes, long COVID symptoms, seasonal allergies, anger supposedly originating from
rejection in the womb, generational witchcraft and death. The one I want to focus on here is anger
originating from rejection in the womb. Yeah, I don't get that. I don't get a lot of days.
Do we know what the rejection in the womb is? Yeah, I got a definition. It's definitely like a
spiritual term. It says it suggests that feelings of being unwanted
during pregnancy leave deep emotional imprints, which later manifest as anger, trust issues,
and hyper-reactivity to rejection.
Okay.
All right.
The next story is, a viral post by one celebrity woman led to viral outrage and has
reignited the conversation of the boy mom.
Let's pop this up.
We need to talk about boy moms.
Jenny Mullen's viral post about her son echoes a long history.
of mothers who refuse to cut the cord.
The writer helps give context to what a boy mom is.
My first encounter with a boy mom happened via a Facebook post from a mother with an
important message for the teen girls of social media.
From memory, she said something like,
stop putting photos of yourselves and bikinis online.
They are afflicting my perfect angel sons with lustful thoughts,
and I'm holding you Hussie's responsible.
My second encounter involved a mother who told me at a toddler's birthday party that her son was the love of her life.
And she planned to ensure that he became all the things her husband wasn't present, emotionally intelligent, physically affectionate, and gift giving.
And then the latest viral example of this came from the author and actress Jenny Mullen who posted this photo.
of she and her son on Instagram, pop this up.
And the caption says, your eldest son will be the most toxic man you ever date.
Ew.
So there they are, all cuddled up.
Thoughts.
Okay, number one, I, early in my parenting, especially with my oldest son, I was this person.
Not like I wanted them to be my best friend or anything like that, but like,
I mean, you famously remember like he'd have five friends over.
He'd be sitting on my lap playing with my hair, that kind of thing.
I realize that that was such a disservice to him.
It kept him immature longer because I'm fighting his battles.
I'm doing his homework, all the things.
Luckily, he was able to overcome my piss poor parenting.
And now is a functioning, high functioning adult that doesn't.
even live in the same state as me. Okay, but here's the thing. I agree for it's the boy mom,
but there's a lot of moms. I think it's mom, girl moms and boy moms that do this. And again,
I have that from personal experience because I, I did similar shit with my daughter that I did with
my oldest son. By the term, the third one got there, I always tell people he's my easiest because
all my crazy went to the top two because I really didn't have time to make him as no. And I was,
nutty as I wanted to be, I wanted them to be because I was too focused on the other two.
So I don't think it's, I think you're either this way or not, it doesn't matter what kind of
sex the child is. Yeah, I think that there is research, though, that shows that in cis people,
that your relationship with your opposite sex parent can be really defining to the future people that
you choose. And I think in that vein, that's what this boy mom article is. I totally agree with you.
They're momagers and all of those things. But this is pertaining to like this woman spooning her child and then posting it on the
internet. About her toxic boyfriend, her child. Yeah. Okay. A substack essay of Mullins also started
circulating during this internet frenzy, and it did not exactly calm people down.
The title of her essay is, please stay, I want you, I need you, oh God.
Call me old fashion, but I only want my sons to marry women with dead mothers.
It's my only shot at staying relevant of seemingly useful and winning by comparison.
Having boys is a mind fuck.
It builds you up, only to tear you apart.
and then here's some of the responses after that post.
Pop this up.
Commenters criticize the star with one saying,
this is creepy and wildly inappropriate.
Another wrote,
this is so disturbing.
While another defended her pointing out,
she's not doing anything wrong.
That's her son.
That's his mom.
In conclusion,
Salon sums up their take on Mullen
in the boy's mom's with.
The boy mom embodies the stalest of beliefs
that women become valuable,
necessary and complete only in relation to men and must never cede that status while i suspect
social media commentators del using mullen with the threats to call cps won't do anything but make her
triple down the best outcome of the shit show is that she realizes setting her son up for embarrassment
in the present and all but ensuring that future partners will never feel like enough isn't something to
strive for thoughts. No, I agree with that. I do agree that that is. I just don't think it's healthy.
Again, I've been that parent that wanted to be, you know, the only parent in my kid's life forever.
But wanting to replace your child's significant other with your relationship is fundamentally
fucked up. I mean, you want your child to be happy in a relationship that's completely
autonomous with you. Here's the deal. Adult children don't want their primary relationship to be with
their mother. I don't. I just, I think it's weird. I think the whole thing is fucked up.
Yeah, I think that the takeaway is so many women that I've known think their children are theirs for
life. Right. And that's an unhealthy attachment, in my opinion.
You borrow your children during their childhood and you mold them.
But the number one thing you have to do is to teach them to be autonomous.
Autonomy is the lesson.
Teaching them that life is disappointing.
Teaching them to embrace boredom.
Teaching them to face rejection.
Instead, these are the mothers that focus only on cupcakes and rainbows.
You're so special.
You're so great.
You're so incredible.
And then these are the kids that go off to college.
and or go to their jobs and they're completely melting down because nobody's treating them as
though they are special because they're just one of seven billion people on the planet.
And so in Oklahoma in particular, I saw a lot of moms that were so toxic and controlling
with their kids and like scripted out their kids' lives as an extension of their own narcissism.
Like this is who I am and this child is in an extension of me.
And this is, these are the only things they can do.
And like, I just think this posting of your child and you spooning online, I mean, my kids would die.
I mean, like they would just die.
I'm a very boundary oriented mother.
And I just feel like they need one person in their life.
And maybe I'm not fun in that regard.
But I'm willing to take that on because I feel like they need to have a space where there is moral clarity.
and that me being that home of that.
And so I'm not a strict parent by any stretch of the imagination,
but I just really feel like in this confusing world of growing up with social media
and, you know, all of these horrible examples of men and the way the men are treating women
and misogyny on the rise, that boundaries are, I would say, the main ethos of my
parenting and my kids just know like you're not going to have an alcohol party at my house.
I'm never going to be the parent that does that. If you vape, that's your business,
don't do it in front of me. That's disrespectful and I'm not buying them for you. You need condoms.
You advocate for yourself and you go get them. I don't want to talk to you about your sex life other
than don't get anybody pregnant. Don't get an STD and consent only. And I just, that's kind of like my
driving ethos with that because those things are theirs. And I don't want to enmesh my
myself in those other than being having like some clarity that these are the boundaries and this is
your centering.
This is a funny story.
You'll appreciate this.
Okay.
I can't remember how old my oldest was.
I'm going to say 12, maybe 13-ish.
And I was in a therapy session and I was talking about what he wanted and what I wanted.
And the therapist goes, why is he expected to want what you want?
He's a completely different person than you.
He might not want that.
And honest to God, that was the first time that I actually was like, I've been doing, I mean,
I remember it as clear as Crystal sitting in the therapy's office that that was somehow
news to me.
That's how I had operated for so long with my mother and then with my kid.
Like, I'm sitting there and he says that.
And I'm like, what?
What do you mean?
What? He could stop with his own life.
You know what?
He just to make his own decisions.
He doesn't do what I want to.
Wait, back the bus up.
Let's start that over.
I remember it.
That's how bad it was.
All right.
That's all we have.
We'll see you all later.
