Some More News - Voting Rights, N95s, and EVEN MORE Dolphin Orgasms

Episode Date: January 14, 2022

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Oh, Jonathan, our delight. Let's just dive right into some news. That's what we're all here for. It's news time. And I think that we're going to start with the threat of voting right legislations and potentially eliminating the filibuster, but probably not. the filibuster, but probably not. We have mentioned this in the past, but coming up next week, Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is Chuck Schumer's little deadline that he gave himself for altering

the Senate filibuster rules so that we can pass voting rights legislation. The legislation that has been stalled for months because, you know, of the Republicans, since they have the ability to filibuster and none of the stuff that we want to get done can get done. And so now the big threat was was that we're going to, you know, do away with the filibuster. But predictably, we do not have the support of joe mansion or kristin kirsten cinema did you guys see her her speech today i know where she

was like almost crying saying how she supports the uh voting rights act but she just cannot support eliminating the filibusters so you don't actually support the voting rights act but she just cannot support eliminating the filibusters so you don't actually support the voting rights act the drama yeah it's a weird it's a weird like hill to die on that like changing senate protocol to do anything is where you have to make your last stand. Although it's the thing that just seems to always get her on TV saying things. Yeah. And like, you know, it's frustrating because I think that part of it is like her weird approach because she her her political journey is pretty drastic compared to like 10 years ago. When she was like a green organizer like real leftist yeah but i would under like i do i do understand like the uh the argument of

like well if we do this then when the republicans have a very small majority they can do what they want that would suck but um at the same time how can anything happen at the same time we're in this gridlock and we continue to be and it gets worse and worse yeah nothing changes and nothing happens um because they're all a bunch of children uh that don't actually care about the people they're working for and yeah it's not ideal there's it's it's a dangerous possibility. But there's also the only option we have because we're not going to keep control for long. Yeah. Well, because yeah, because if you don't do anything and I don't know if we want to dig into this, but Biden's approval rating is not doing so good. People aren't fans of Joseph Robin and Biden Jr., the current president.

And if inaction continues and the bare minimum is barely achieved, then they're not going to get more support. People aren't going to vote necessarily for even more Democrats, although that is probably going to be the argument being made that's the message you gotta you gotta vote you vote more and then we'll do it so it's sort of this uh catch 2022 right oh that was so good new podcast um i wrote it down four years ago i think that like i understand the argument because like Republicans have said like, oh, yeah, if you do this, you're not going to like what we do when we get back in power. But I think and, you know, I don't know how much to be afraid of this, but there is that sense of like, this is it. This is the last time we'll have power for maybe a long time, especially if Republicans can control all the levers of uh of our electoral process if it is voting what's at stake yes this passage so like if it's what we need to do

to pass you know the the uh what is it the freedom uh i got it right here the freedom to vote act and the john lewis votingment Act, you know, these things would do quite a lot to prevent a lot of what Republicans in Arizona and Georgia are trying to do. And it, you know, it's the same kind of deal with last time in 2024. It won't matter if Biden or whoever is the Democratic nominee wins in a landslide, but it will if it's close. You know, if Arizona is close, if Georgia is close, if Pennsylvania is close, half a dozen other states like it's curtains.

And some people would point to Donald Trump and Joe Biden as as that being a landslide. And some people would say it's close. The fact that it was contentious even with that kind of a win. Well, right. It wasn't close at all. Well, it wasn't close at all. But I'm just saying like it doesn't even – it makes me terrified for – even if it does win by a landslide. I know.

It's different. Because even if it seems close on the day, which it always does. It's not like counting votes usually works. Then that's the instant narrative, right? Because we also sort of expect like, oh, we voted today, therefore, we're going to know the winner by the end of the night. And it takes a long time. And so but it doesn't take a long time for a narrative to take hold. Right. And with a 33% approval rating, like it might be kind of close next time.

And the Republicans might just get rid of the filibuster themselves, you know, to do whatever they want. Oh, for sure. Like there is, it's funny you say that because like, I didn't even think about that. That is definitely what they're going to try to do because they have this sort of weaselly thing where like they'll do a thing and then like Dems will sort of halfheartedly try to push back or like, like combat it somehow. And then Republicans are like, oh, look at this unreasonable thing they're doing i can't believe it and then when they're

in power they do the thing um and but blame the democrats for doing it to them even though they did it and we're planning on doing it some of it's just payback like the way they're gonna impeach biden on like day one or whatever or file the impeachment papers on day one and impeach him for right whether they say it's for you know letting letting immigrants across the border or whatever they come up with to say he's like ted cruz said um i can't believe ted cruz said uh but he did like he just said it out loud he said the loud part he. He's like, they're going to, what is it? The quote Republicans will impeach Biden, whether it's justified or not is the quote that he said.

So they're going to, regardless, they do not need a reason. They don't want a reason. Yeah. It's the quiet part out loud party at this point. Yeah. God, what a worm. Okay, guys, this feels like a good time to take a quick break, but we will be right back after that. Listen up, weirdos. It's me. Maybe you've been staying indoors for a while. You know, it's cold and there's bores and that third thing.

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Try it, perhaps. I want to talk a little bit about the specifics of what are our what are in these bills oh yeah that's important to talk about but first i want to mention a couple things one one thing so joe biden gave a speech in atlanta earlier this week a strong-worded speech saying the time has come you know and we're going to get rid of the filibuster and so we can pass voting rights legislation, et cetera. And that is something that I, at least for myself, I've wanted that. I've wanted strong language, strong rhetoric of saying what we're going to do. A bunch of activists didn't show up to the speech. Stacey Abrams didn't show up because it's largely being seen as a bunch of talk without action.

And there's a bit of a plan. It doesn't look good. But here's my thing, especially to the points of like, yeah, the threat of, you know, we might lose seats in 2022 and lose control and Republicans in the filibuster, but also this acknowledgement that we have to do it if we're going to get anything done. We've spent all this time trying to woo a relationship with people that don't want to work with us. And we've wasted all the time that we could have, if we had just done this, if we had hit the ground running with this messaging and gotten and maybe

somehow had the time to make it happen. And then, yes, we can start doing stuff. And if we lose everything in 2022, at least we would have gotten some stuff done. But right now it's like so close to the election and it's dangerous and there's all sorts of reasons why it's not so effective now. Does that make sense? These are just my thoughts. Yeah, and, you know, it also— And you can disagree with me. I'm just meandering aloud with my brain now. No, I agree.

And, you know, I mean, yeah, we're not even talking about how, like, we don't talk about Build Back Better Act anymore. We don't talk—well, one, we don't talk about the Build Back Better Act, which was heavily compromised that failed to pass. But we don't talk about the original one. We don't talk about how it was including Green New Deal stuff, which just got completely stripped out. You know, the universal pre-K, all those things we've talked about in past episodes and that

the Democratic Party was talking about. It's like, oh, we didn't do it. Oh, well, it's gone. And that's going to be the same thing with this one. It's going to be a big PR push this week of Schumer and Biden pretending that like, oh, well, we're being we're we're on the using the bully pulpit and we're using really strong words. And then it won't happen.

And then they'll say, we're you know, we're really upset. How dare you? And then the next week it'll be on to like god i hope covid's gone so we can people can like me again you know like yeah and there's there's an element too of like these things sort of yeah like you're saying like they get forgotten and then move moving on and like with this voting rights thing or like the way they they sort of have to package these things and like sneak them in uh It's very frustrating that it always seems to have to be this like we have this new Voting Rights Act and it's got this and this and this and this and

this and this and this and this and this and this. And then it doesn't pass because of X or Y or, you know, R, I guess, is the letter that is really the reason. But like we've talked about like even just simple things like make Election Day a federal holiday. That's a very simple thing that is in this for sure. But like sort of to my point, like just do that. Like the make Election Day a federal holiday act. Or an executive order. I was going to say that could be an executive order.

But like simple things like that, like just do the one thing, do the one thing and that will actually get done. And you can whittle these things down. And you also don't have the ability for like Republicans or or the mansions of the world to dismiss the entire bill and sort of frame it like, oh, they're trying to like steal the elections actually, or however they want to do it. Like with Build Back Better, all you have to say is Build Back Better is bad. If you go into like polling of the individual things in these bills, people support them. The majority of people support the individual things, but when it's

packaged like Build Back Better, the narrative can shift the other way. We're like, oh, the bill is bad. And then they get in this in their heads. Whereas if it's just literally just like it's this, it makes Election Day a federal holiday. Try to spin that like it would be much harder for them to to reject something like that in a lot of these cases. I agree with you. Yeah. The stuff that's in this, the stuff that's in this, the stuff that's in these two bills,

I mean, I don't know what could be done with executive order and what couldn't, but like it would be hard to read these things and see Republicans have to reasonably make an argument against them. The Freedom to Vote Act has make Election Day a federal holiday, allow online, automatic, and same-day voter registration, greater access to voting by mail and 15 days of early voting they're against that because

democrats vote that way but they would come they would say fraud or some nonsense uh restore voting rights to formerly incarcerated people convicted of felonies make it harder for states to remove eligible voters from the vote voter rolls put limits on partisan gerrymandering like these are things that both parties talk about all the time. How dare us? Yeah. Yeah, but if you say it's the Freedom to Vote Act, all a fucking Ted Cruz has to say is, it's the Freedom to Steal Votes Act.

And then that's what it is to a lot of people. But like you're saying, if you look at it, people would be like, well, that sounds reasonable. Of course you want to put limits to partisan gerrymandering. One might even say you want to stop it altogether, but putting limits on it, sure. I mean, yeah. Why do we just say limits? We got to put limits on it.

It should not exist. That's a good wormy voice. Yeah, well. And then the John Lewis voting rights amendment act, I'll just read this. It would restore the federal government's ability to require states with a history of discrimination to seek permission before changing their voting laws uh undoing a few supreme court decisions that weakened the 1965 voting rights act and

that seems to be a no-brainer in and of itself as well to me there are a lot of laws have been uh presented over the past like year that have that past year that would have needed to seek permission, like what you described, that didn't now because of this. Because of some Supreme Court cases over the last few decades, I think. Yeah, over the last 13 years, I think it's been gutted twice, basically. Yeah, so they're just saying like hey yeah i can go on the internet and i can say well actually they're besmirching john lewis's name by trying to uh make it easier for immigrants to vote like whatever it is well if we know one like yeah we know republicans care a lot about john lewis his legacy civil rights activism in general always talking about it going on and

on right there next to him. That's the line. They're going to have to say his name in a few days a lot on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and then ignore the fact that they are completely against without even saying why. Absolutely opposed to every single thing. They'll sleep fine

at night though. They don't give a hoot. They'll get to say the one MLK quote they love so much and then they'll move on. Mm-hmm. And not mention anything else. That quote being judge not by the color of the skin

but content of the character. That is the one thing that they love. And not the other things about Martin Luther King. We have a video coming out on that next week. Check out our video

on Martin Luther King Day coming out next Monday. I get so, this is, there's so many topics like this, but very demoralizing to sit here and talk about it. Talk about what should be done, why this is a no brainer, how badly we need it. And know that it's not going to happen again. That we shit the bed again. I mean, maybe it will will somehow i don't think so that's what things have been like since i since i joined the team here is it always like that

yeah it's your fault you joined the team no you're so sorry you're sorry it's hard uh at least no i'm saying that's not what the podcast has been like i'm saying that's what the news has been like since i've joined and i'm sure that's what the news has been like since I've joined. And I'm sure the news has been like and it's been like that anyway for a long time since well before it. But at least I don't mean at least. But Donald Trump was in office and there it felt like there were more tangible things that you can do about like the immediate threat. But knowing full well that you're not doing anything about the systemic problems that have led you to donald trump but you know you're trying to triage the wound and now we're just looking at people bleeding out everywhere and you don't know

there's no one's letting you access medical supplies i'm just talking for more doctors that's a good point though that's a good point that a lot of the faux like resistance we're doing a lot of stuff yeah that like was big during trump like those fake twitter accounts like i'm a disgruntled sec department of state guy or whatever that nonsense yeah secret admin yeah all that stuff like it seems like a lot of that has continued into the biden administration but it's like chuck schumer being like, I'm part of the resistance, but I'm resisting the minority and I'm powerless. Like it feels very ineffective now. Me, the majority leader.

So then if you can't get basic things done, why the fuck should we vote for you? Well, I don't want to vote for the other guy, but it's just, it's very, very, very upsetting. If you get more, you get better. But insert some sort of joke here to make us laugh because this is a comedy podcast. I like to think it is. It is.

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More of it. It's even more-a-con. Nope. Let's do that again. It's even more-a even more a con nope let's do that again it's even more of a con omicron even more micron news oh i see okay okay it took me a minute but i didn't say it right it's not your fault but let's talk about omicron a bit more shall we we did talk about it briefly last week, but some stuff's changed. Hospitals on the verge of call a haps. Yeah. No, no, not for the better.

Hospitals are asking COVID positive employees to keep working if they're asymptomatic, which is just wild that we're so understaffed that we have not enough people to work that and and just so many of our health care professionals are testing positive and we have to have them come into work still that's bad that's a we're fail this is a failure a big time failure you know yeah i think we i think this would only be a big-time failure you know yeah I think we I think this would only be a big problem if this was like a aerosolized virus that like traveled through the air when people speak and can frequently do so even if people don't show symptoms but since like that's not the case well you know then I think you're feeling fine because that's not the case right that's an aerosolized virus that can

transmit out of your mouth even when you're asymptomatic? No? No, it's like a snitch thing where you get a little star in your belly and then you're like, oh, okay. Oh, got it. So it's really, really clear. It's really clear who's the most infectious and who's not. And we have really clear guidance on that. Okay, great.

Yeah, good to know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Consistent and clear guidance so frustrating and so hard to figure out what's the right thing to do in every arena for employers for parents for yourself the individual so like i i was exposed on sunday i hung out with somebody who a day and a half later is very sick and is tested positive. And I don't have symptoms. I've tested negative and I'm isolating. But apparently the new guidance is that I don't have to, but also I probably should. What am I supposed to do how long do i what is the window of time that i could potentially get infected you know it's and they the whole strategy is now do your best you know

we're not trying to contain your best and come in you know and like friends who are teachers having to show up to school even though there are no substitutes. Stories across the country of like schools urging parents to come in and sub for their students, for their kids' classes because they're old superintendents and principals coming in to teach math because there just aren't people. Oh, good. Get the elderly folks back in the schools. Yeah. Let good get the uh the elderly uh folks yeah let's get the retired ones back in yeah or like uh mo and uh ned flanders yeah let's just get anybody yeah anybody can go in there we should just have all the all the kids just watch the simpsons you're right yeah you know it's so interesting that like the strategy we had at the very, very beginning of the pandemic, like let's all stay home for two or three weeks.

Let's not see anybody or do anything. That strategy would probably work a lot better right now with such an infectious like spike of Omicron that's going go up and then shoot down but it's like we have no imagination and no one expects that anyone would do that at this point like no one in power thinks anyone would do that just they told them to so now we're just like it's a free-for-all and it's like it's too bad because if we had the will to do it that could probably crush this thing especially with the quick incubation period, all that stuff. This is the time for all those measures. It's just a shame we're just not doing it.

We know that this will die down. We know that we can get it under control. We've done this before. We, at this point, are all pretty much set up and used to it. The students know. And it just would have to be two weeks. Now, look, I am not saying that that's easy on parents and that that sucks, but that's also an indictment into our whole system that employers aren't taking into consideration what their employees need, you know, not letting, so you

let them work remotely. So you, you bend the rules. We made it work. It's just two weeks this time. And we could not we could understand that we could prove it. It just it's unfathomable to me. And then, of course, today was the news that the Supreme Court has thrown out Biden administration's vaccine mandate. So basically the mandate allowed what it required workers at companies with more than 100 employees to either be vaccinated or to take tests weekly. You're not even saying that you have to get vaccinated. You just have to be willing to take the two minute test, the 30 second test yeah or take your temperature what is this world that we live in idea i at least they left the

requirement for health care workers in place like at least john roberts and kavanaugh were like uh well you know i think if you're a health care worker you gotta be vaccinated funny seeing that they uh those two were like okay i'm not i can't i i can't like the like it just it speaks i think to the fact that like obviously it should have gone through and because it was healthcare workers they're like okay obviously but um they just couldn't bring themselves to it. Fun little Babylon Bee headline based on, Jonathan, what you just brought up.

Oh, yeah. SCOTUS rules healthcare workers are the only people who can't make decisions about their own health. It's just such a weird, like, warped view of, like, what's going on. Just, like, even, like, doctors, like, warped view of, like, what's going on. Just, like, even, like, doctors, like, the vax doesn't halt transmission. So no marginal benefit to patients regarding COVID risk.

Whereas, like, it doesn't halt transmission. It does reduce it. So isn't that, like, definitionally a marginal benefit? It's also, like, they try to write their headlines in the most confusing way possible like you know a comedy headline to be like punchy and to be like oh I see the bit there but

every single Babylon B headline you gotta like sit there and scrutinize for like 20 minutes you gotta like they need to put it through that like Hemingway filter the Hemingway filter isn't there like a website you like yeah you like put like passages they need to put it through that Hemingway filter the Hemingway filter? isn't there a website you put passages

into the I'm writing this down for myself it translates it to Hemingway where it gets rid of unnecessary words and trims it down I don't know if it still exists now hiring comedy writers

never used. That's what Babylon Bee should put out. Yeah, it's a Hemingway editor. Some more... Yeah, still out. Omicron. No, Omicron. You're still

going for it. Emmanuel Omicron. Yeah, something like that. You gotta get the better of masks, guys. If you're holding out still and you're wearing the cloth masks, get rid of that shit. Unless you've got another mask underneath the cloth mask. But Katie, I was told two years ago that the masks don't help. And then shortly after, I was told that they do.

And they said that because there was a shortage. So I'm going to take that to mean that we don't help. And then shortly after, I was told that they do. And they said that because there was a shortage. So I'm going to take that to mean that we don't actually need masks. Okay, that's the wrong takeaway. Still. It is, yeah. Is it, though? Because that's what they said two years ago. But the information has changed.

And the thing that they've been saying since then is that we need to wear masks. Information is fixed. Okay. Right right that's science is that not how it works depends on who you talk to depends on who you talk to get a better mask yeah no get get better masks um i to be to be clear um good luck getting those masks though no there are masks available they just take a little they might be a little harder to find and the good news is well i don't know how good this news is because we don't know how they'll be doing it.

Because like if they're too pricey, because some of these N95 masks can, you know, 20 of them can cost a lot of money on Amazon or something. The Biden administration is going to, they're going to explain next week how you're going to be able to get a KN95 or an N95. They don't know yet. They've got $750 million in the stockpile. What I love about that is that those are disposable masks. It's good. They should be giving out masks. Devil's Advocate, they should have given out masks forever ago.

They're also arranging to send, I guess, test kits to people. Another thing that should have happened forever ago. We'll be at the end of this surge when everybody desperately needed those supplies. But great. We'll get them eventually. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's all like on Biden's like campaign page of like, we're going to do this. We're going to do this.

We're going to do this. And he, well, a year later. 30% approval rating. We're going to do this. And he, well, a year later. 30% approval rating. I went back into Google to see when was the earliest I could find an article that was like, hey, we should really upgrade our masks. And I found one from like November 2020 and then more in January from January 2021.

That was like, hey, this cloth masks were really just a stopgap thing since we had such short supply. Now that they're in greater supply, and if you can find them and you can afford them, you should really get a KN95 or an N95 mask. And like, no one ever talked about that. The Biden administration never promoted it. They put everything into vaccines. They really had the same strategy as the Trump administration really which is that once we get the vaccines this thing's gonna end and you know it look was looking pretty good for them in may and june and the the admission that they didn't anticipate new variants and that they didn't have any resources to deploy something that is readily available in like the uk they have a they have an infrastructure to get people at home.

It's pretty damning. And we just they just decided not to set it up because they're like vaccines are going to get us past this and to not have a contingency plan to be doing this, to be giving speeches. He's now giving speeches every week the way like Fauci and Trump used to do these like press conferences every day. He's now giving speeches every week. Biden is being like, what we're going to do is we're going to set up a website. It's January 2022. And you haven't set that up yet? We're going to set up a website. It's unfathomable.

And like, it's just, I mean, it is, but it's also completely fathomable, which is the disappointing thing. No, you're right. I fathom it. But it's like, it's like this approach of like, there's one solution and you do and you got to do one thing and that's it. As opposed to – it's a multifaceted problem. It's very complex. There are millions and millions and millions and millions.

I could keep going but I'm not going to. People in the country. And of course it's going to not just be like, well, we got the vaccine and we're good. Like I'm looking at his campaign website now and it is fucking really sad to look at like all the things like, yeah, going to, you know, use the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of masks and face shields and tests. And we're going to double the number of drive through testing sites. We're going to do all the all this sort of stuff. And it really has come down to Google where you can test. Yeah, literally Google it.

We'll probably say it will probably send you tests. yeah literally google it we'll sit probably said we'll probably send you tests and we and and like every fucking day he tweets like vaccines work get it oh great man um one other just sorry katie was one other thing that i have to point out is that you're sonathan you're saying that they're gonna send out these masks or they're going to get masks to people. And I would posit that they will probably distribute them to places that you can go and buy them and then get reimbursed. It's definitely a possibility. Also, so far, it's like, OK, go jump through a hoop to reimburse yourself for whatever home tests you buy. You know, yeah. So we need multiple packs of it so every time i go and do

this i'm gonna go try to fight my insurance for anyway go ahead jonathan it's so confusing that we're like okay we're acquiring 1 million at home tests that we're going to distribute through a website for free but then also separately if you go toS, you can buy them. And then, you know, you get a two pack for $24 and then you get on the phone with Aetna or whoever and fight with them for three days. Or the tens of millions of people who don't have insurance don't do that. You're just spending it. And you know what you do? You decide not to buy a test. If you can even get a test, like in LA right now, you can't get a test i mean here's some of the i mean this circles back to all the confusing messaging of what you're supposed to do if you are exposed um and they're

saying like if you're not sick if you're not experiencing symptoms don't get a test because there aren't tests you're like well okay but how do i become a good citizen how do i do my part to protect my community? What if you have children, immunocompromised persons in your household? And the CDC guidelines that were just changed from 10 days to five days, which they say is because- Unless you get a test that's positive after five days,

in which case it is 10 days. Yeah, but you're like, okay, it's convenient that we've changed it oh yeah oh in that case but it's all just a big clusterfuck a couple positive things though guys looks like wow wow wow cannabis cannabis might block covid um that sounds like a joke, but researchers found that two compounds commonly found in HEP can block the spike proteins from infecting cells. Maybe that's why Cody and I

have not gotten it yet. Hard to say. Allegedly, supposedly. Well, continue reading the thing before you say that. Yeah, continue reading it. No. I've chosen.

I've decided to not read the study, actually. I made this very clear on Twitter. I'm making it clear now. I will not be reading the study. I will not be finding out what it means. I'm going to read the headline and I'm going to assume, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Read the headline and you smoke weed and you're fine. No.

You can all keep talking. I'm going to not listen. You can't stop yourself from getting COVID just from smoking weed. The study is like, look, we found CBDA and CBGA can prevent the spike protein from infecting cells.

This could be used in the development of preventative drugs. You specifically, like smoking weed can't work because I guess when you heat up the compounds, it changes their chemical makeup and it thus won't do anything. I guess if some of those compounds are in gummies or something, but we don't know about how much or how it's delivered or anything like that. So I would love everyone to feel great about this, but I would probably forgiven for reading the 10,000 headlines

that said yeah cannabis cures code no I know I mean of course it's more than just that and I actually don't suggest I mean there's still if you're actually smoking marijuana then you are doing damage to your lungs so I'm not going to suggest

that you know smoking it necessarily also that's not what this article is about but can i come back you can come yeah come back yeah we're done saying stuff you can come back you're good wave your arms if i can come waving but my camera's off okay so uh we've agreed that smoking weed cures coronavirus and prevents it from... Yeah, but there's another cure too. Did you just go and did you go and block COVID with cannabis while

in that minute you were gone? Oh, yeah. I mean, I gotta do it every day. Otherwise, you're gonna get the COVID. You gotta stay on it. But don't worry, Cody. There's another way that you can prevent yourself from getting COVID. It's if you drink your own pee. You guys see that?

If you drink your own urine, you can cure yourself or prevent yourself from getting it. It's research. I did hear that. I saw it online from some guy and also on Nathan for you by some other guy. About COVID? On Nathan for you? Not about COVID, just about. Christopher Key.

The Nathan for you guy is just like, it's good for you. It's just good for you. Well, it's not going to kill you, but it's not going to kill you of COVID. Much like the cannabis article. I hope you guys investigated a little bit more christopher key oh founder of a group called vaccine police um i like this quote vax cops everybody's always said i'm cray cray but i'm crazy like a fox is that what he said yeah okay well then i guess, then, I guess. Pee and weed. He also said, he gave this whole speech.

He's like, we've got all the research. We've got all this stuff. Also, take this with a grain of salt and do your own research. But we have all the documentation that you can cure COVID with by drinking your pee. Take this pee with a grain of salt. Mix it up a little bit. It goes down easier. He also said, he also called a lot of his evidence purely antidotal.

Antidotal. Which I thought was funny I thought that was funny That is very funny He may have misspoke But he may have just Not known what the word was He may have just Also may have

Maybe He's just being Very clear It is All the information is antidotal Here's the antidote to COVID And it's your piss Oh I see

Yeah Yeah he's clever. Clever like a fox. But maybe he's just wrong. Don't drink pee. Unless you want to. I'm not your fucking boss. Better than drinking ivermectin, probably.

Yeah, probably. All right, let's move on to broken news, shall we? We've got several things to get through in that section we do hey hey um so there's oh yeah a couple of california health care stories here in his most recent budget proposal california governor gavin newsom included a provision which would make medical the state's health care program available to all low-income residents regardless of immigration status the state would spend 2.2 billion a year to give further access to Medi-Cal, which is currently only open to undocumented children and seniors.

That is wonderful. Yeah, that's a good thing to do. An even better thing, I would argue, is if they just gave health care to everyone, which is what some other Democratic lawmakers in California are proposing in a much more ambitious plan. It's it's passed a few legislative hurdles. I see. These are two separate. I thought that this was his first thing and that the next thing that he's also supporting and working towards was the universal health care. We support it in theory.

This is my confusion and I have not distinguished this. Yeah, OK. working towards was the universal health care we support it in theory like he has said like this is yeah okay right one might say that their confusion is a bit by design one would because when many politicians talk about universal health care what they're talking about is universal access to being able to buy health insurance which then allows you to get health care. Sure. I just thought because these stories both came out essentially at the same time, I thought that this was more connected than that.

But okay. No, in fact, Gavin Newsom might even be a little bit upset. Okay. He might even be a little upset upset. Okay. He might even be a little upset at Assemblyman Ash Kalra who is bringing this up because he was like, I'm doing this really good generous thing.

And then other people were like, why don't we just give health care to everyone? And he's like, well, I campaigned on that and I want it, but then he trailed off into the sea. Which is steadily rising, so it wasn't that hard for him to do. So he didn't need to be recalled.

We just needed to ask him a mild question about his campaign promise. He would have just gone out to sea. Yeah, definitely a cheaper good to know for the future. Yeah, all that money wasted on what could have just been a simple question. There's some there are some like there are some Democratic Congress legislature, Democratic legislators in the California Assembly who aren't on board with this plan. They don't think it's the perfect plan or the right way, or they think it might be too expensive. The California Nurses Association and other advocacy groups support it.

They say the tax increases would be more than offset by not having to pay for private health insurance anymore. The issue is that if all of this moves through the legislature, it still would be up to California voters in 2024 to approve it, which means we would see, you know, a Prop 22 level campaign by insurance companies and medical associations and whatnot, trying to trying to prevent it from happening. I think that we will be seeing that happen. Well, I like that it is being talked about here in California. I would like California to lead the way. I don't like Gavin Newsom very much.

I do like expanding Medi-Cal, but not if that's the compromise between knowing nothing and having single-payer health care. But it is a step – well, it's the start of a step forward, I guess. It's the conversation. It's a conversation in the right direction. You're talking about taking a step. Yeah. It's like the thought your brain has where it's like, okay, am I going to pick up my leg

and then move it slightly forward and then bring it down and make that step? And the answer is maybe. How about another broken news story?

Yes, please. Oh, we broke the news. Former President Trump. You guys remember him, right? Did he lose? Is he a loser?

Yeah. Well, I mean, he's lost. He lost that last election. I think he lose? Is he a loser? Yeah, well, I mean, he's lost that last election. I think he's still losing it somewhere. He's one of our favorite losers. I think there's some void where he's still losing it. Yeah, of course he is still losing it.

He went on NPR's Morning Edition for some reason for an interview with Steve Inskeep after a brief segment about vaccines. The conversation turned to Trump's repeated lies about the election, which Inskeep pressed him on, corrected him about those lies. And he eventually just hung up on that interview. And we do have a clip here.

We have that clip here? We do. Oh, boy, what a treat. We have a clip here. People have no idea how big this issue is and they don't want it to happen again. It shouldn't be allowed to happen and they don't want it to happen again. It shouldn't be allowed to happen and they don't want it to happen again. And the only way it's not going to happen again is you have to solve the problem of the presidential rigged election of 2020. Mr. President, one more question. I want to ask about a court hearing yesterday on January 6th.

Judge Amit Mehta, he's gone. Okay. judge a meat meta he's gone okay that's how it goes yeah i think it's really funny uh that because like you you're like your first thought is like why would he even go on npr like what what that's why is and i feel like there's part of him that knows he's getting i wouldn't even call it praise but just like a bit like the mildest appreciation that he is trying to say that vaccines work and are good and that he got the booster and he's like doing a little a little bit of like the bare minimum like yeah i got the vaccine it's good and then he gets booed and and so on so i feel like he's like kind of riding that thought and wave of like oh they like me because of this and And so he goes on, does the vaccine stuff,

and then eventually he's like, oh, but also these other lies that you're still telling, we're not okay with. And then he just... Yeah, 100%. Leaves like a baby, like a baby loser. He just wants that little bit of praise.

Little bit of praise, please. Stevenskeep, there's video of this, and, you know, guy's a professional. He doesn't really get rattled because he sounds and acts exactly the same as if he was talking to like a regular person about regular stuff. So when like Trump hangs up and is gone, he doesn't even in the video, he doesn't give like a weird look over at his producer or something. He doesn't act like what's with this dude? He's just like, okay, well, he's gone. And then it's like moving on to all things considered

or whatever it is. All I'm saying is Stevens keeps a prep. He did what you always want them to do. Yeah, just keep going. Don't get flustered. Just keep doing it. And then they look like a bit of a fool because they left like a baby. Oh, he's gone. Okay. Yep.

I'm a bit surprised a fool because they left like a baby. Oh, he's gone. Okay. Yep. Yeah. Okay. I'm a bit surprised Trump didn't say like, oh, you're being, that's unfair. You're inappropriate or you're part of the enemy. He didn't do any of that stuff. He's been doing that PR training, baby. You wouldn't even be able to tell right. He wouldn't even be able to tell that he left.

Like he didn't do anything. He just said like, we got to stop the evil Dems from stealing another election or whatever. Bye, before you can call me out on that. Couldn't hear the click. Didn't say goodbye. Didn't say I'm out of here. Yeah, it was out of character. Maybe the vaccine is boosting his brain.

Changing his hormones. And his personality. Yeah. Growing a soul. Who knows? Mm-mm. Nah. One more broken news story?

One more. Because I got it. Yeah, let's fuck this news. Yeah, so dolphins can come. I have more. Good for them. Dolphins can come. Yeah, scientists have conducted extensive studies

on the dolphin clitoris and found that it very likely functions to provide pleasure to female dolphins and may even induce orgasm. Bottlenose dolphins have been observed partaking in group orgies where male and females alike use their snouts, flippers and flukes to rub the protruding clitorises and penises. I'm reading this. I haven't. I didn't. I'm not. I'm not this. I haven't. I didn't. I'm not. I'm not saying these things off the cuff. Use their snouts,

flippers and flukes to rub the protruding clitorises and penises of their peers. Direct stimulation of the clitoris has also been observed in sexual interactions between only females. Good for them. Good for them. Get it, girls.

So much like Rick Perry, dolphins are comers. There we are. That's the moral takeaway here. I have a question for you, Jonathan. Maybe you know the answer. Maybe you don't know the answer. I'll see how my Googling

during talking skills are. So it's a simple question and it is why did we... Why do we know this? Find this out? Is it like, you know they they're curious about like these activities that they see and like well is it pleasurable for them and now we know or is it something where it's like well now that we know this now we can really get down to to some science

or were they just sort of curious i believe yeah it's hard to say. I believe. You believe. Because the study that I have not read in its entirety, but the article of which I have does not go into detail about why they decided to conduct the research. But I believe it is because they want to see if animals do sex the way humans do sex. And I think it came out of this idea of like, we're special. Nobody does sex the way humans do sex and i think it came out of this idea of like we're special nobody does sex the way we do and there was this like viral not even it sounds like they do it better i mean they from from what it sounds like look it didn't say the dolphins always bring each other to orgasm it said it is possible it's possible they can it's possible sure but they might not care having fun out there yeah

if you're saying group orgies and like the female dog but yeah like we're very like animals don't really have sex for pleasure um so that's sort of what i assume where it's like well is there what other other but there was like a lot there was this chain email years ago

that went around that talked about how pigs were the only other animal besides email about pigs fuck sorry yeah it was like the pigs were the only other animal that had sex for pleasure and like I guess we all believed it but that's not true yeah it doesn't sound true even yeah hearing

them like that's probably not true and of course the way these things go they studied the dolphin penis for like years and years before they even decide to think about get around to looking for the dolphin clitoris which took them way too long to find that's very funny they did yep yep

all of that but then once they found it they were like whoa I never knew this thing could do that go figure wasn't there like a pleasure to it in order to encourage it? Like it encourages procreation. Isn't that like kind of the point?

I don't know. I would think. One assumes, but I didn't do these sciences. Well, because like the- It sounds like you did just now. You're asking our opinion, we confirm. It's true. And so you've proven the theory.

That's how science works. The only thing it gets into is dolphin sex is clearly a kinky affair and it's drawn the interest of researchers for years now. And I don't think just rubbing their clitorises and penises against each other is necessarily kinky. That's not kinky. Yeah. But that this is the science alert dot com article. So maybe maybe these dorkinky. Yeah, but this is the sciencealert.com article. So maybe I'm kinky. Maybe these dorks, yeah.

Dork, that's a whale penis pun. Strange choice of word to use because you're, of course, projecting our morality. You're like, it's kinky, you know? But I don't know. Gosh, whatever they're up to with their snouts yeah i would argue that hand stuff is not kinky one last thing the equivalent of hand stuff some dolphins have even been caught using sex toys in the form of dead fish or wriggling eels well that loving all

of this is that does sound pretty kinky that's up. I guess if they're using dead animals to do it, yes. I wouldn't even, I think kinky is like to tame a word. That's fucked up, dolphins. But they don't have the sex toy market that we have. Again, projecting your morality. They might not have many other options than to use wriggling eels. No, there's so much garbage in the ocean, they could find something for sex toys. I know, we've given them so much. We have provided them so many options.

A lot of that is sharp and bad for their parts. I guess, but surely there are dildos that have been thrown away. Use one of the 10 billion plastic Coke bottles we've thrown into your home. Come on. Come on, dolphins. I bet they have. We're trying to help you out. I bet one of them has at one point.

This feels like a good place to wrap things up. It always does. Whenever we talk about dolphins and how they come. We can just do this story at the end of every episode. Classic. All right. The return of a classic. A new tradition.

Jonathan, our delight, our dear. Thank you for everything always. Thank you, my delights. You really carried this episode through for us. And you're just so good. You're so good. And we're grateful. Tell the people where they can find you online,

even though we always tag you in it anyway. They should follow you by now. Yeah, no, I'll be tagged in stuff. I'm at Country Caravan on Twitter. I've kind of not been doing it as much in 2022 feels okay good we'll see how long it goes yeah that's seductress

will lure you back again probably I'll get in for 20 minutes and then leave yeah it's boring yeah who needs it I mean we all do for okay sorry yeah yeah yeah alright guys

that's it for us this week we'll be back next week and in the meantime remember that we love you very much very much there it is very much