Some More News - A Quick Convo About Trump Pertaining To Nuclear and EVEN MORE Q's

Episode Date: August 19, 2022

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hello hello hello hello and welcome back to even more news the first and only news podcast welcome welcome welcome to to to The the the third third Third time time time I've tried to introduce The show with you You know the first one I thought was fun It was filled with Midsummer Night's Dream

References The second one was fine but then he hit the Microphone with my hand But we're doing it again but we are well met so that's the important part that would be funny to you guys if you knew the first take of this episode anyway wow hello i'm katie stole oh shit hi katie i'm cody johnston you sure are cody johnson guys if we're feeling a little loose a little goofy little lucy goofy it's because we're gearing up for our week off we um we have

we have a week off in fact as you're listening to this we will be on vacation i know you all think that i've been on vacation for a long time in the world of the show but this coming up week i actually will be sort of on vacation um so we're recording this now now being the week prior the week prior and um that's what we're doing that's what we're gonna chat up top we're gonna discuss some things that have developed since when last we met which was yesterday on our timeline which is 24 hours ago yeah over a week ago on your timeline listener dear listener and then we're going to share with you a very special patreon q a episode exclusive but i gotta say i think it's fun and the world premiere perhaps of, of some music.

Oh, God. Yeah, probably. We'll probably keep it in there. So this is just like a smorgasbord of stuff for you. Yeah, if you love the Hot Shapes, the band that's sweeping the world with your ears. I mean, that's the name of his band. The name of the band is called the Hot Shapes.

Yeah, you haven't mentioned that before, but now it will be sweeping. No, it's out there now. out there now nothing i can do about it can't suck that one in no can't can't un put that take those documents right yeah oh yeah you can't you can't legally seize any of that okay before we talk about the news, we gotta celebrate some holidays. Oh. And, oh boy, is it a day. August 19th, men's grooming day. Men, this is the one day of the year that you gotta groom. Mm-hmm.

Trim, wipe. Today's the day to wipe. Go to the store. Get your dude wipes. Is that for your face or your butt? They're butt wipes, but it's like Axe style. So it's like, dude wipes for your gnarly butt. Shut up.

That's really how they do it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or is this a joke? No, I mean, they don't say like, for your butt. Well, they should. But the or is this a joke no it's i mean they don't say like for your butt but well they should but later late the product is called dude wipes it's they're very funny i uh got one because i thought it was funny uh and when you open them the top it says let her rip it's just like just like just like be a product's fine. You don't have to do a whole thing about it. Oh boy. That's fun.

Also, I think they're probably bad for the environment, but. Probably. But also like the wiping your butt is not the grooming that they're talking about. No, it's not. That's what, very important to get that. Yeah. Get back around here. Butt wipes is hygiene.

It's not grooming basic basic hygiene basic hygiene but men's grooming guys you know put some lotion on that face trim that beard you know get a you'll get yourself a manicure if you're feeling fancy i see jonathan shaking his head you know i have no no interest in trimming the beard oh It's just another thing to do. I work from home and see nobody for a reason, you know? That's right. Why bother? I'm sure your wife has something to say about that.

But she's not here, is she? No, she's not. She absolutely is not. But she will be. I'm going to go apologize to her for saying that right now. You should have seen the look on his face just beat red he quickly rethought that yeah so yesterday we recorded yesterday last week we broke the news that had already been broken that trump's beautiful beautiful home mar-a-lago was raided and documents were seized and then as soon like

within i don't know 20 minutes of the show being over it was then revealed the nature of the documents that he took illegally and they were nuclear documents the thing that like jonathan in your notes yesterday i think you included that we didn't even get to maybe it was an offhand comment of like there's it seems ridiculous that he would take something nuclear but no he did yeah he did he definitely did it's very it's all just so funny isn't it um it's the kind of thing that like wait did they did they got him is it an actual we got him situation um it's funny because like it's the kind of thing where there's a lot of speculation about like he took these to like sell saudi arabia and stuff like that but i would posit that possibly a more

likely scenario is he took him because he was like oh i'll show this to to my friend Greg, who owns a bunch of car washes in Florida. Like, you know, like it's just like... All the guys will think this is so cool. Yeah, it's just like the Trumpiness of him. And it's like when he shows the fake Time magazine cover of him. It's like, here's my person of the year Time magazine cover that is fake.

And here's some like top secret nuclear documents that i took and look i'm very aware that by the time you guys hear this you will have learned 20 new things oh yeah no this is old news i'm so sorry like we might as well just you're probably like rolling your eyes as you listen to it but we wanna talk it's just funny we gotta talk yeah he's so mad asking everybody if they're gonna wire oh hey there little muffin listen who amongst us hasn't leapt from a hotel balcony into a tiki bar and had their jaw wired shut for six months no one likes eating through a straw but what if i told you that one of the best sources of vitamins actually comes in liquid form? That's AG1 by Athletic Greens.

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And you can get some today. To make it easy, Athletic Greens is going to give you an immune-supporting free one-year supply of vitamin D and five free travel packs with your first purchase if you visit athleticgreens.com slash more news today. Again, simply visit athleticgreens.com slash more news to take control of your health and give AG1 a try. Huh? Did you see like the Dana Perino thing, all the people for like two days who were like, look, unless these are nuclear documents, I don't see the reason for the raid. And then it turns unless these are nuclear documents i don't see the reason for the raid and then it turns out they're nuclear documents and it's just 12 hours of silence while

they wait for their marching orders so funny they figured it out though i'm pretty sure they're they're landing on why did it take the fbi so long to take these documents that's irresponsible of them so good oh they just can't they can't they can't get over the line our poor dumb old president didn't know it's not his fault it's the fbi's fault it's so funny um like every step of the way and this has always been the case but it's uh it's very distilled right now of like oh the news broke he's the crime guy remember that crime president you elected and wanted and supported him during his many crimes well he's doing crimes again and here's the evidence and it's just like very very a tight version of like how do we how do we make it okay that he did the crime and they're gonna land on who you know everybody does it or it's fine it's fine that he did that, actually. Who amongst us hasn't taken nuclear code?

It's so good. There's a tweet from... It's like they have nothing. This person doesn't matter. It's Eric Erickson, if you're familiar with him. He's so fucking right. Yeah, I know. Eric, both times with the CK.

To give you a little window into who this guy is. Honestly, fuck his parents. But it's just uh it's just this funny it's funny tweet and it's emblematic of everything that they have to do now the wild swings on twitter are incredible it was about january 6th no no it was only classified documents only you idiot holy shit he was selling state secrets i knew it twitter makes people stupid and it's just this this idea of like oh you just always switch like what you're mad about at first it was the insurrection then it was this crime and now it's this crime and it's just funny like to list off all the reasons and crimes and lies of his

and be like pick a lane yeah there are too many there are too many to pick you just listed a bunch of them but also he added the no no it was only classified documents only it just gives the game away to me it's very funny because it's like you added the word only twice you know that nobody is saying it's only about the documents ask literally anybody like oh i'll he's a crime guy because of this and this and this and this and this and this and did this and like and yeah the instructions involved nobody's saying it's only about this this is the thing that's happening right now

it's just the floundering is just entertaining whether or not anything comes of it I know and I as of this point on this Friday afternoon I don't have much hope I refuse not yet that something will come of it.

Yeah, it's one of those things. It's that obviously that tweet always goes around. Let's see Donald Trump wriggle his way out of this one. Oh, he wriggles his way out. Oh, well, nevertheless. And but like it's one of it. This is one of those times. It's like.

Nevertheless. I would like to see him wriggle his way out of this one let's see let's see what he does there stealing the nuclear codes i just didn't even like i i'm still surprised by it there was his statement today where it says president barack hussein obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is lots. I love that. Word is lots. It's such a guy.

Word is lots. I laughed out loud when I read that. So funny. But also, he's suggesting that Obama stole nuclear secrets and that that would be bad. So, yeah. But if it's bad, I guess I guess it's just going to be that the FBI planted it. That's what this is going to be. Well, it's they planted it, but also it's bad. But guess I guess it's just going to be that the FBI planted it. That's what this is going to be. Well, it's they planted it, but also it's bad.

But also I did it and it's fine because everybody. Yeah, it's right. It's all of them. There's no reason to think that it won't work. That excuse, at least amongst his supporters. You know, there is no it's it's why I mean, the lesson we've learned time and time again is that he can say what he wants and justify however he wants and people will go along with it that want to go along with it

they don't care they don't care if he's a crime a crime guy no they don't it's uh my girlfriend was i was talking to her uh last night she's saying like the funniest thing that could happen right now is that he dies he'd like trump just dies and for a lot of reasons because like there are like a few times where like it would be funny if he died from kovat the first time uh be funny if he he died mid cofefe tweet like that would be like the oh yeah he died in the middle of that tweet that would have been the real good one but wouldn't that have been amazing but uh this is another one where it's like no one would believe that like they would. Everybody would think that like the government. Yeah, I don't think it would be funny if he died right now.

It would be funny because of that, but not in like a not in a way where it's like, I hope it does, because it would it would destroy. But also, I don't want him to have that out. You know, i wouldn't i mean i do think there's plenty of times when i think in general yeah trump dying would be funny but i really don't want him to any context die in this maybe not this one we ideally it's like in prison he like yeah shits himself to death or whatever uh as we've as we've discussed many times slips on a piece of toilet paper stuck on his foot as he's coming down some stairs right but there are just a few like moments where like man if he

died right now that would fuck so many things up like right now like exactly right now they'd think he was alive still or they would think that uh q would say this was all part of the thing All along this was the new plan Hillary did it The Clintons did it or He's in fucking Bolivia or whatever Waiting for the right moment One or the other We'll see what do you think is going to happen Katie What do you think in one week when people

Are listening to this Hopefully the whole place isn't burning down already Civil war hasn't started Where do we think we'll be at i think i don't i don't think that i have a good enough imagination to answer that question because it's whatever you say it's like it'll be weird yeah exactly he'll just be i think that this is just give me more of this give me a good joke answer everybody's gonna be i failed i failed you volleyed to me and i didn't do it i'm acknowledging to

myself to you to the whole world because the whole world is listening to this podcast right now that cody lobbed me a setup for a joke and i didn't have it i didn't have it in me it's okay i didn't plan to record today so in my defense that's right it's you know it's vacation i am wearing a bathing suit As soon as You can afford To get lobbed something And just sort of

Look at it It just That's exactly What I did And then An arc And then it hits the dirt And then it rolls around

I've always been terrible At volleyball It's fine I played for like One quarter In middle school And I kept hitting The ball backwards

Oh that's not where it's supposed to go not where it's supposed to go for a quarter yeah you know you're on court i don't know semester fuck you guys i don't remember um but i did say that i am wearing a bathing suit which i am because i'm gonna go kayaking as soon as we're done recording this all right all right so what do you think is gonna happen in the next week news i i think i'm gonna go kayaking for sure is gonna happen in the next week i mean there's i think there's gonna be at least one more like violent incident probably right yeah that is actually a real answer i'm sorry that's a real answer it's just like uh yeah cody loved me this this setup and i like i didn't i didn't do a joke

and like jonathan's like okay what about you I'm like I don't know it's gonna be like I know it's hard it's hard to get that's the real it's like you like I lob it to Katie and she watches it hit the ground and you lob it to me and I like step in front of it and let it hit my head

um because I'm not looking forward to it whatever it is you know it's probably a bad week for us to be taking off but whatever or he'll uh you know uh we'll get some photos of him like getting arrested that'd be funny you know he'd do he'd do it he'd do it in a funny way he'd look funny doing it we probably shouldn't talk about what ifs anymore because everybody at this point will have known and they're like oh yeah no a bunch of other stuff is gonna like this we're just chatting because we enjoy each other's company i think he's gonna announce he's running for president yeah soon and then you can't he's gonna be like

you can't arrest me when i'm running for president even though you can but he's gonna be like you can i'm running i'm the i'm half the president now it's that uh blue former and future arrest yeah yeah oh it's so good yeah you're right and and that also is what's so disturbing about i mean if he does or if he doesn't regardless he's gonna declare soon and yeah he probably will say you can't investigate someone running for president. And a lot of people will believe that. Just like a lot of people are now going to believe that Obama stole nuclear codes. Yeah, 33 million documents of nuclear codes. Now that's just in the lexicon of whatever this is.

Oh, he can say whatever he wants. And that's what's perhaps, and it's not the most unnerving it is just a very unnerving part of it and why it's hard to come up with a joke answer because i'm like i honestly don't know like yeah well you will just keep checking in on his truths and see if he has anything more to say word is lots this feels like a good time for us to segue into vacation i mean the rest of the show And see if he has anything more to say. Word is, lots. This feels like a good time for us to segue into vacation. I mean, the rest of the show. Yeah.

Word is, agree. All right. Well. That's cool. I hope you enjoy the questions that we aid. I hope that song's okay. It is. I already listened to it. It's a work in progress.

It's fun. It's not how all of our songs sound. Like, it's fun. It's chipper. We've got other kinds of songs, too. Hope you like it. And now, on with the show. On with the show.

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All right. First question. First question. Here we go. Violet Moon asks, what exactly is the map in the background? Where did it come from? Is it just the continents all jumbled up or is there more to it? Mostly that. Yeah.

Oh, it's more or less exactly what you said. It's a jumbled mess of continents. We wanted, you know, the map in the background, like a news show. But like wrong. But not quite. Yeah, just kind of wrong and wonky and a little, you know, interpretive, I guess. The first map that we had or the background we had, was it a map? What was our background?

It was still a map. It was a map. Yeah. It's if you look at the COVID, the COVID episodes and the movie, we have it. Yeah. COVID episodes, too. Really? Gosh, time is all a mess.

But I got that one off of like Alibaba or something I was looking for backgrounds and then we had a graphic designer work with us to design the background and we got a bunch of different versions of it in different like color schemes and I had them printed up into little tiny small samples per the direction of our director will and we shot a test against all of them to see which looks best and this is this is the one that you see that's where we landed i still have the uh the the covid map or i guess the original yeah series map i have one version of that and the other version i believe is still in macaulay culkin's garage yeah no the of oh oh of the samples the original

original of the original like the the you mean one half of it uh one of them we didn't get two well then i got a big a big half of it then because it uh we've used it uh since then yeah well we are the it's probably got well it was ripping when we retired it to the new backdrop and we are still in our studio then covid hit and you had what you had available to you but we started shooting over a webcam which is a smaller um space right i I bet it's... Anyway, I don't know what happened. Point is, Macaulay Culkin has some of it. That's the story of our maps. Macaulay Culkin has some of it.

It's a violet moon. It's a jumbled up mess of continents. I think we've spent a lot of time on this question. Gotta spend a lot of time on something. Joseph Wilson asks, this is for both Katie and Cody. Oh. We assume, but yes, thank you for clarifying. You're now president and can have five bits of legislation that can pass unhindered.

What do you do? How about just one? Universal health care. I'm sorry. What is the other? It's fine. No, that's a good one. Free ice cream for Joe Biden specifically.

Oh. Right now he has to pay. That's true. Mm hmm. He still has to pay. President shouldn't have to pay for ice cream is joe biden specifically oh right now he has to pay that's true he still has to pay president shouldn't have to pay for ice cream is what i'm saying i think that would poll really well thank you i agree for joe for joe specifically though not like the president oh oh oh i mean most people would think it's stupid but joe biden would enjoy it he would love it i'd get his vote do another queue i'm chasing the brandon vote april hughes asks do you think the number of supreme court justices should match the number of judicial circuits in this giant flaming shit bag of a backsliding democracy which i think is 13 i think the number of supreme court

justices should change every day based off of uh like a dice roll or some sort of fun game that they can play jacks like a russian roulette it's uh well i mean that's that'll really uh dwindle the numbers um if they do that every day but yeah no actually uh i'll just say yes russian roulette every single day and you have like a tank of like 20 justices and every day they each play around and then see how many are left and that's how many there are for that day i'm really just like not answering these questions genuinely and i apologize the for the other one i don't know voting stuff probably uh um we're fine i don't know uh i i i'm open to this idea april i don't know i i i don't have an answer for this i feel like we could do i wasn't asked but i have

an idea go for it go for it what if like if we're gonna keep lifetime appointments then like every two years like when someone dies you don't get a new one like every present just gets the same number you come in and you get two and every two years i just add like a couple more and then if like one party is in power for too long they like don't get to add one for a while i don't know what if like i mean what if it exceeds like is there like a cap it would like because at some point you're gonna get like 50 justices right yeah no good okay okay i see so you just want like as many as possible but like with like rules quote rules in place yeah so you keep some of the same rules in place but then you just add it so much so that they don't feel so powerful and so that they aren't so powerful yeah i mean if they weren't lifetime appointments that'd be cool that'd be a nice change. Why? Why do we have them till they die?

Well, so, I mean, to more a little more seriously answer the question, more just like more justices makes sense. I don't know if it would necessarily need to be specifically that number. That's that's my circuits. But also the Russian blood idea. the russian lead idea so you know yeah the reason i haven't directly answered this is i'm not sure about the number specific number but i'm very open to the conversation of more supreme court justices and how that would work on paper reading the way you phrase this i don't know that could make sense but more specifically yeah i i think the conversation isn't going in that direction yeah the giant flaming shitbag part of the question really stood out to me and resonated. Yeah, that's what really, yeah, me too.

Me too. A secret society of goths asks, did Katie ever have a goth phase? No. No, I didn't. I didn't. What kind of phases did I have? I was a theater nerd, you know? At first, I was phases did i have i was a theater nerd you know at first i was i was a chubby little girl and a theater nerd and awkward and like to climb trees and read books and

wear floppy hats and doc martin shoes and i played soccer and softball and i did student government and i was voted most spirited in high school that's right it's pretty much the opposite of goth but i've had lots of goth friends oh that counts yeah and halloween's fine with me classic goth opinion i obviously have lots of goth friends because halloween is fine by me yeah i support halloween continuing to exist am i invited into your secret society of goths, though? No. That person can't answer live, but I'm going to guess maybe. No.

Hey. Okay. I mean, they clearly support you in some capacity, so maybe they'll be like, all right, fine. You know, took a pretty big risk even asking that question.

I'm sure it violates some of the rules of the secret society. Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't change their name to something a little more conspicuous. Maybe they did. Maybe they did. Maybe the secret society of Goths is called something else. Yeah. So we don't know. Yeah, the hidden club for Goths, I guess.

All right. Yeah, the hidden club for, I don't know, goths, I guess. All right. Orion Usner Kidder asks, please describe the logistics involved with episodes where you have multiple beard states. Bushy, trim, mustache, clean shaven, et cetera. Every time you do it, I start making charts in my head of how you must have had to plan the filming

around your facial hair. Yeah. Yeah. That's how you do it. Yeah, you kind of laid it out there bushy trim mustache clean shaven etc you start by shooting all the stuff with the beard yeah then you work your way back the movie for example we did uh any beard stuff and then old the old man uh because he still had a beard but you got makeup in there to make it gray and then you trim down and then yeah clean

shaven cody etc so yeah uh it's just sort of written in whatever sequence it needs to be because of it written that way and then we figure out all right what's first beard stuff um sometimes it gets complicated i forget uh a recent episode where it was like well we can't do this necessarily because if i do this then i'll need the beard for this later on or something but his beard does grow back pretty quick it does yeah so more so more or less it's just sort of yeah uh just like you shaved this morning didn't you cody i did yes i actually did trim trim i trimmed it yesterday the itchy phase for you only lasts like 20 minutes the rest of us have to go a whole week oh no it's a bad one uh it's really not a week it's i would say like a day a day day and a half for itchy phase it's

still lucky yeah i'll take it all right we'll see we'll see what comes of this one robert spramoli says i've been waiting for this for a while i don't know if you realize this but you very briefly showcased the largest magic the gathering youtuber on one of your videos I checked it out it was like it was in a pip from a video you can check out the still there yeah and the question is do any of you play magic if so what

formats and decks and I think I know the answer to this but I'm asking it anyway what do you think my answer is I mean look I don't want to stereotype Katie but you already said you're not a goth and we all know goths love magic the gathering so I'm gonna say asking it anyway what do you think my answer is i mean look i don't want to stereotype katie but you already said you're not a goth and we all know goths love magic the gathering so i'm gonna say you're in that my dear goth friends never told me no i've never played magic the gathering but also counterpoint i've never been asked to play magic the gathering oh so he's never asked you

no disgusting probably because he knows that you're not gonna want to which came first the chicken or the egg guys it starts here i put that it starts with the question in the chat if you want to see the pip oh good there's a clip okay it's a comment from tolarian community College on the Some More News movie that says I wish this were longer that's a delightful comment and I agree and maybe there's a video coming

up soon or that exists previously that is longer than the movie maybe by the time this is out you'll know what I'm talking about but that's I remember seeing that comment and using it in that episode and delightful. Thank you for asking. I never played Magic the Gathering.

I played briefly the Star Wars customizable card game, which was sort of based off of magic like those kind of decks. I tried that when I was young, but couldn't i i didn't couldn't get into it i couldn't really get into it it was more just like oh i got the cards and there weren't many people at the time to like play that particular game with i would like go to like a comic shop and be like he's playing the star wars game so uh so no magic the gathering very limited star wars the customizable card game. I bet I still have this card somewhere, actually.

I bet they're worth not a lot. I kind of want to, I like the question, and it's listed from Jason Pargin. Is it that one? Is he a patron? Or is this someone who has altered their name? I will know once we read the question. Based off of his question, I'll know if it's actually Jason. Great.

So Jason Pargin asks, do you get invited to be on right-wing shows, and do you have a personal policy about doing them, like to try to reach a new audience? Like if you were invited to be on Rogan or Crowder's show or that guy who wears the beanie, would you do it? I think this is probably really Jason. Normally his questions are a bit sillier. Jason's asked us a question before. Yeah.

I have a general rule about like debate stuff that I don't really like to participate in. I've just seen too many online debates where like everything about it is so unappealing and doesn't seem like it benefits many people except for whoever's like do like platforming the debate and like there was one it was like i don't know it's everyone i see it's just the chat is full of like oh plus one to this person they destroyed that guy and then the other side's like oh yeah they destroyed that guy it's not very productive yeah that said i would consider like a rogan type conversation because he's more thoughtful you were gonna go on the babylon b podcast we can tell that story yeah so we were invited um to go on

the babylon b podcast after we did that very long cody and david not me video uh video about the like conservative comedy and how it's kind of sucks and is bad and all these reasons. One of the employees there reached out to me on Twitter and was like, hey, I saw your video. I was expecting to like be really mad about it, but you made some points that I actually agree with. Would you like to come on the podcast? So Dave and I sort of went back and forth about like, should we do this? Is it worth it? So Dave and I sort of went back and forth about like, should we do this?

Is it worth it? If we do go on, we'd have to make sure to bring up this and this and this to them because like this is very specific publication and their views, you know, are are what they are. Listeners know what the Babylon B is. And so we were going to do that with sort of a general plan of like, you know, and we made it clear, like like this isn't a gotcha from from for anybody he like the guy who reached out was just like i just want to talk to you about these things which i kind of agree with and have like a good conversation about it and we were gonna do it where we each were able to share the podcast separately so it wasn't like oh they're sharing the thing and it's their platform or whatever um but then that guy got let go from the babylon b and everybody else who worked there was not pleased with the video and

did not want us to be on the podcast uninvited he got fired cody uninvited yeah i like to think that that's why i mean it's probably not why he's doing fine he works for daily wire now yeah he's doing he's doing i think their children's programming but i think that uh i think that that didn't i don't think that that had to do with it but i think it was related in the sense that like i think they didn't want him there probably because he was open to stuff like that right so so yeah i think in that situation and like i've said before like, like, like Rogan, I'd be fine with because I think he would be open to certain things. And whereas like Crowder, I don't trust him. Tim Pool, I don't trust as like a person who would be having a conversation genuinely.

said like i would be more than happy to like meet them privately and like have a conversation have a drink with them or like do something without cameras there because i always feel like especially with people like crowder if the camera's there they're a different person and they're presenting in a different way and their goal is different um their his goal uh like i'm not this isn't news his goal is not to have his mind changed so So I would not want to, like, participate on his platform in a way where he's just like, ah, I'm gonna get you. You know, but I'd, like, meet with him and be like, hey, man, like, really? You really think this shit? Katie, what about you? Are you going on Shapiro?

No one's invited me on Shapiro. But would you? Well, no one's invited me on shapiro but would you well no one's inviting me me on shapiro either no probably not probably not for similar reasons that i don't think it would be productive i mean it depends on the person i guess but no especially not even more so for me because i feel like there's an added layer of misogyny that follow those interactions and it opens women up to horrible, horrible online attacks. And that to me isn't worth it.

There is something in me that would want like, you know, you're listening and you're like, I'm pretty sure that I could come back and make some good points. But it doesn't matter because they're not going to acknowledge your good points. And I know that I would be opening myself up to be ripped apart. I guess it depends on the situations. But me talking to ben shapiro he would be unbearable and you know and sometimes when i get really mad at someone i tear up it's not because i'm like sad it's just like my physical reaction i wouldn't want i wouldn't want them to get the best of me i'd have to be pretty chill and a couple of xanaxes have my nervous system

really well regulated so that i wouldn't let them, you know, entrap me into some situation. You know what I mean? But yeah, I mean, boy, sometimes you daydream about it and you think it would be really cathartic. But just like anything, when you want to try to talk to someone that doesn't want to hear what you have to say, there's no point. And yeah, I think there's something about like, at least in my in my view, I think that there's something more ultimately like, quote unquote, valuable in. Oh, I had a private conversation with this person and I kind of changed their mind. Like we had a real conversation, got to them, and maybe that changes how they present things in the future on their platform. Yeah. Like it's going to be very combative if like we're there and we're the cameras if you're if you've

got cameras there's no way that they're going to right but if you convince somebody of something behind the scenes then maybe that will affect their content in the future you know maybe if it doesn't that sucks but but yeah that's i think the more likely scenario. But I'm not to say never say never. Maybe there's a situation down the line. And, you know, but yeah, as of right now, that doesn't sound appealing. Alex V asks, Cody, when are you going to release music? We've been waiting. That's very sweet.

People ask this every time. And every time I'm like, yeah, we're doing it. ask this every time and every time i'm like yeah we're doing it uh so soonish i think i i wanted to include this just because a kick in the pants as it were i'll just say i think i'll probably if everyone's okay with it include a demo or like a scratch version of one of the songs that will be released by the band yeah in this podcast so at the end of the pod at the end of this even more cues maybe you'll hear like a kind of okay version of one of our songs we're called the hot shapes the hot shapes that's the new great love that yeah how many members of the band two it's my friend from college who was in my college band uh there were four of us in that band

but he played bass and i play guitar and now but like yeah it's just whatever the song uh asks for i'll play mandolin or guitar or like piano maybe drums maybe um and he'll do like bass and drums and uh banjo is on one um so yeah it's the two of us it's funny when we talk about it because we're like and then the band does this like what you mean me like yeah then you on all the instruments do this together do you have a uh like filming a get back style documentary about it where you're like willing new songs into existence on a guitar when saving all the zooms we've got all the zooms recorded to for our very

haphazard meetings that we have about in 50 in 50 years a director will have we're like we we got 80 hours of zoom footage yeah the hot shapes it's a way I've thought like because we do we we whenever we meet it's

like a half hour of like just like talking and stuff and then like music and stuff and i was like this could be there's a podcast here probably some band meeting thing but we won't actually do that katie's back i'm back and she loves hearing about cody. Yeah, no, it's pretty cool. I was asking him about it. Well, I was being asked. It was not like I was saying. I'm just razzing you. There's no, like, extra spaces available in the band, apparently. Like, they're pretty full up.

Yeah. Also because, like, being a musician's a requirement, unfortunately. Right, I mean, I've asked Cody many times if I could be in his band, but I don't play an instrument. But, to be be fair he hasn't taught me yet either i what you you live in the woods now i do live in the woods but only for the last three days to play acoustic guitar i think harmonica is more likely i uh can give you i can i can teach you harmonica on zoom i can teach you guitar on zoom i Here's the thing.

I would love to just give music. Give me one of your 50 guitars. I would love to give music lessons to people online. Give me your worst guitar.

I love talking about music. Give me it, Cody. Technically, technically my worst guitar is my most sentimental guitar. Yeah. I also am in no way serious.

I know we're just talking now and I'll get back to a question in a second. I'm sorry. But when I was a freshman in college, I had a roommate who's like musical tastes really like inspired me and changed a lot of like the music I listen to. And he played guitar.

So I bought a guitar. I went to Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard and bought like a starter guitar and just like myself chords and stuff like that and uh never took a lesson and thus never got good but i can play a bunch of songs with very specific easy to play chords yeah that's right and do a real crappy version of the beginning of blackbird hell yeah to this day still own that same guitar refuse to get rid of it natalie goes can we get rid of this i feel like that's not an easy song to learn blackbird yeah it's actually not it's not hard it's the only finger picking i could possibly do just in terms

of finger picking yeah it's like a good thing that place to start yeah yeah and it's the all i ever did there's still time to have a guitar because of maybe one day yeah your life is not only have two people in the band so you know yeah ever expanding oh we also like one of us lives in chicago and one of us lives not in chicago so it's i'll i'll pick up the harmonica anyway another question i can't play i i'll just say i i like playing the harmonica it's very fun and i like playing with guitar at the same time and stuff it is impossible to play the harmonica when you have a beard if anyone's listening and they have a beard and they play harmonica

my brother did if you have advice it pulls out it just pulled every single hair out of my fucking face my brother always had a beard and he always yeah it seemed like and maybe it's the way my beard grows or something or i need to like uh trim it in a specific way but it rips it out does it hurt yeah fucking hurts when these get ripped out of my face yeah it's so it's like because you're like playing and you like it intense and then like the metal i guess that would be similar to having like a pubic hair ripped out of yeah like if you're playing if you were if you were if if one if one were to play the harmonica with their vaginal area um then it would rip it out i'm sorry i just was trying to relate i was like i guess like i've got peach fuzz on my face but you know that doesn't hurt that's okay but that's different than having a i'm sorry i said vaginal

area i'm the one that brought up pubic hair. That's fine. Yeah, this has been bad. This has gone away. More real term than what I said, so. What was yours again? Vaginal area. Ooh.

Didn't even pronounce it right. Vaginal area. Well, I think that vaginal area means something different than vaginal area there you go boy one you can play the harmonica from the other exactly it's a musical term another question another question please oh man this should all stay in i'm gonna add yeah yeah i'm fine with it aep aep schmidt asks what recent news makes you the most hopeful about our future if anything i'll add i i don't want to say nothing because that's a depressing answer you know i suppose that mansion is sort of on board i was on board with this plan but

that's a little bit but it doesn't make me feel hopeful because i don't think it's enough i won't say like a specific story just every once in a while i see something of like some breakthrough that's very promising yeah in the scientific community i don't know if hopeful is the right word but in terms of like a recent thing i really loved when those james webb photos came out and like yeah everyone was kind of excited about it like it wasn't like there were very few like this is space is dumb. I fucking love outer space. And I think people like Elon Musk kind of ruined the mystique of it.

So I really like that. Just sort of everybody, everybody being wowed by the awe of the vastness of the universe was very uh cool to see again hopeful is not really the right word but it gave me a little jolt yeah i i love seeing things that make people drop that drop their cynical yeah you know shells that we've all built for good reason and and that's a moment of unity i mean there's the news that the second person has been seems to be cured of AIDS. Oh, and there's that

cancer breakthrough recently too. And there's some really promising stuff going on with Alzheimer's treatments. So that's actually a great answer, Cody, is the scientific because that is what continues to blow my mind and expand our you know our lives like our bodies but also our understanding of

who we are and where we are in the world and i do i don't want to be as completely dismissive of my first answer as i seem is that i do feel that the tides are changing in terms of people's understanding of the reality of the climate apocalypse. But it's hard because it's not fast enough and it's not it doesn't feel like enough. But at least these conversations are being had. And, you know, the tides are shifting in that space. The growing labor movement, I think, gives me hope to people realizing the collective power that they have is also a sign of hope, I think. I'll say one thing that I made a new friend in town and was chatting and they invited me to a Democratic fundraising event in august where i could meet people in the area granted i'm not a democrat really you know and she isn't either just because the best we can do and they're mostly older but the people here went for this county went for

bernie of course they did in terms of the democratic you know and i was like really that's not recent news that was news to me that gave me some hope in terms of the democratic you know and i was like really that's not recent news that was news to me that gave me some hope in terms of where i've just moved yeah bernie's great maybe we should make him the president like the fact that this community the democrats in this community went for bernie sanders is a big deal because you know i think a lot of them would probably identify as modern even, too. And yet, here we go. There's nothing radical about what Bernie Sanders stands for. Well, I know, but

that's the... God damn it! But this is what the media, this is what we're told. You know? I know. I know. We have a whole video about it. Sucks. Yeah. Alright, one more question? Yeah, one more. Sure. It's a silly one. Andrew Wally asks,

who would win, a grizzly bear or a gorilla? I'm not sure in what. It doesn't specify what the competition is. That's true. Just a fight or a rap battle, a dance off. If it's just a clean fight, grizzly bear or a gorilla or just a bear? It says grizzly bear. Grizzly bear.

Grizzly bears are real big. I think the bear probably, right? My instinct is bear. They got those claws. Because I don't know. I would need to, you know, I need to look up like the strength comparison. But if the strength is comparable, then the grizzly has more weapons. They didn't name a grizzly glue they named it gorilla

glue that's true that's true you know that's true counterpoint okay so it looks like so bear's strength without aggression is 2.5 to 4 times stronger than a human gorilla without aggression is 4 to 9 times stronger but the gorilla does not have the grill right so the grizzly has natural weapons yeah so i think i would still bet on the grizzly. Well, he might have his glue. Yeah. So like, yeah, what are the animals armed with? Strength isn't everything.

I can give you the side-by-side comparison here. Yeah, yeah, read us the stats. So this, yeah, here's the tail of the tape. Silverback gorillas, six feet, standing on their feet 485 pounds grizzly bears eight feet 800 pounds yeah let's see that speed silverback gorillas 20 miles per hour grizzly bears 35 miles per hour yeah temperament gorillas mostly docile bears moderately aggressive moderately what they say. And then Silverback Girl is 15. Tell that to my trash cans.

Two hands, two feet, four opposable thumbs, and Grizzly Bear's four feet, 20 toes, 20 claws. I go bear. I'm going bear. Bite force, 1300 PSI for gorilla, 1250 for grizzly bear. Yeah, but that doesn't

outweigh all the rest. It doesn't. Eight feet. I think the opposable thumbs are a big deal if you can give the gorilla a gun first and this is america i'm sure the gorilla's already got it that's what i mean trained you know it grabs the grizzly and like yeah well that's the thing about a gorilla a gorilla is smart i still think that the grizzly has it but who's to say i bet they'd fuck each other up real bad and i'll tell you what i wouldn't want to be there to witness it yeah no one wants to see that no one wants to see that someone probably does obviously somebody does even i probably would be morbidly curious but wouldn't buy a ticket be there yeah anywho i think we did it We'll never know

So I think that's reasonable Answers I feel like Someone's gonna try this at some point right When everything's deregulated and like yeah we're all In our little snow piercer Pods or whatever Some you know baron

Will organize grizzly gorilla fights And then you know Brandon will rise again Brandon will rise again. Brandon will rise again. All right, guys, that's it. It's the weekend. We're done. We love you very much, though.

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