The Daily Zeitgeist - Man At The GarTrend 2/10: Super Bowl, Kendrick Lamar, Super Bowl Ads, ICE Raids

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

In this edition of Man At The GarTrend, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the Super Bowl, Kendrick's halftime performance, the weird and terrible ads, an ICE raid update and much more!...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:10 Listen to Building One on the iHeartRadio app, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. So that Kendrick performance was pretty mid, right guys? That guy stinks. I can't understand a word he says. It was pretty mid, right guys? That guy stinks. I can't understand a word he says. It was pretty me. I read like some reviews that said the audio was fucked up at the beginning, but I didn't even I didn't notice that. I didn't catch that. Seemed fine to me.
Starting point is 00:02:37 Threw up. He didn't give a fuck at all. No, he was not trying to like aim for the, you know, the people who aren't familiar. He was. No, that was the thing. It's like, I don't know, like, I guess if you're not paying attention and your expectations are such that you want just the hits from his catalog, I can see how people are disappointed. But like he's this is PG Lang, Kendrick.
Starting point is 00:03:03 And yeah, he doesn't give a shit at all. Yeah, no, he does not. No, I was at first when I like watching it as like this is a Super Bowl halftime show, like I want everybody to like my guy, Kendrick. I was a little bit like, oh, fuck, like I wish he had played more of the hits. But then, like just encountering it as a piece of art, I was like, oh, this fucking. Now with the Sam Jackson interstitials that sort of put everything in context, it was like just the meta
Starting point is 00:03:35 narrative of him being there, talking about the show, about like expectations of the songs. Yeah, exactly. That just that sold it for me where I'm like, oh, it was really this guy had an idea and he fucking executed. Yeah, this was definitely the most artistic halftime show I've seen. I was going to say it's up there with like the Gloria. Stefan, Katie Perry, when she came out, Katie Perry, Gloria, Stefan. I do really like the Katy Perry one. You out on the giant block. Katy Perry, Gloria Estefan.
Starting point is 00:04:07 I do really like the Katy Perry one. You know that about me. That one was great. To me, I still think that's one of the top ones on the American maximalism scale. Yeah. Like that was the most Super Bowl halftime show of all time. Knows the assignment and just fully embraces it like a fucking a straight A student raising their hand at the front of the people mention like, yeah, just like the lack of the maximalism and like it's like,
Starting point is 00:04:32 yeah, he could have did money trees and had like marching bands come out and stuff. And like that would have been cool. But now he would like that. He should have had like trick people in tree costumes, throwing money out, making it rain. Yeah. Oh, look at those three. Look. Oh, my favorite is left swimming pool. Oh, I was I was the famous
Starting point is 00:04:54 swimming pool in the Kendrick Halftime show. I remember that the guy floating face down in the left swimming pool. That was the dancing bottle of alcohol. Yeah. Yeah. Like that's I watched it with somebody who's like a like theater person. And like he was just like getting texts from his friends about like, this is what it should be like. And it's like all these like obscure theater performances. It's like real.
Starting point is 00:05:21 I know. Expectations seem to really rob people of the joy of experience, it seems. Oh, yeah. Yes. There was nothing technically wrong with the perform. I get why people, some people are disappointed, but it was a good performance. All right. Is anybody saying mid? I feel like I'm either hearing like worst Super Bowl show ever or like it's fucking great.
Starting point is 00:05:41 I'm seeing it's either mid or it's great. I think a lot of new Kendrick fans that thought he was going to behead Drake in effigy or something. Yeah. Like that. This was going to be like the last stop of the kick the dead body of Drake for. Which it was. I mean, what was it? He said, well, that is a lot of the tracks. He had you for you.
Starting point is 00:06:03 I don't even want to think I know, but I'm saying, but you know, but you know, motherfuckers are so literal, like they wanted to see, like they want to see like probably some kind of physical depiction of Drake being destroyed, some actual physical tangible reference, like what's like this exploding a giant effigy. Get in your art bag a little bit, folks. I like the people who hadn't really been following. They were just like from afar. They knew there was a story about a rap beef.
Starting point is 00:06:29 And they're like, I think him and Kendrick are going to make friends in the halftime show. Yeah. I mean, remember, because like I texted you when the battle started. I was like, what if they come out with like a joint track after after their volleys? And it's all just like it's like a Marvel movie. Once you accuse someone of being a pedophile, it's hard to go back. You can't really pull that. This is before I think this is before euphoria came out.
Starting point is 00:06:53 Actually, the homie is actually kind of the homie. That's like what if this is just the ploy for like a joint album? Nope. Best of both worlds. It was a yeah, that was fun, though. Just truly came with like an artistic vision in mind. It was very it gave me a tour vibes. It was just like, yeah, exactly. The second I saw the stage, the setup, I was like, oh, this is like
Starting point is 00:07:17 this is PlayStation remote or squid game and the performing the inner side game shit. Yeah. Performing in a giant X while playing peekaboo. Yeah, so that song is a rumor to believe has something to do with X and and Drake having something to do with his death. That's the rumor. So doing that is kind of wild. Triple X Tentacion. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:44 Is peekaboo like I just thought that was like a weird track that we were obsessed with. I didn't know. Is that like one of the hits from the album? He just doesn't give a fuck. Definitely. Yeah. Yeah. That's my number one with a bullet. I was like I was like joking. I was like, I hope you play. I was not expecting him to play Peek-A-Boo.
Starting point is 00:08:03 When he did, I went to I went to Her Majesty. I said, oh, oh, it's like, oh, I guess what we're about to do. And then in this living room, what they talk about, they talk about, know what they talk about, they talk about, know what they. Hey, babe. Yeah. Yeah. What they talk about, they talk about. Hello, the Internet. Hello the internet and welcome to this special week trend edition of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist. Zeitgeist.
Starting point is 00:08:33 Zeitgeist. Zeit. Pick a fool. It's a production of iHeartRadio. This is the episode where we tell you what was trending over the weekend. It is the Monday after Super Bowl Sunday. Super Bowl Monday. Super Bowl Monday man Bowl Monday, man
Starting point is 00:08:45 Oh, this should be a goddamn has anyone trademarked that shit Super Bowl Monday Super Bowl my productive day Yeah, man. I can't believe they don't don't give us off on this day. They should they should I do actually think they should I'll talk about that No, Emma Super hot later. Later. Okay. Spicy. How are you doing, Miles? This is going to be my answer
Starting point is 00:09:14 for the foreseeable future where I go all things considered? How are you doing all things considered? ATC? Not good. NPR is all things considered. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay. Every day gets a little bit easier. Just a little bit.
Starting point is 00:09:35 Yeah. And then you see a Kylie Minogue video and you start crying. I saw this Kylie Minogue video for Can't Get You. So like the guy's song, he's in his dancing. He's entering his dancing era. So I play DJ and stuff and I'm like, oh, let me see what the fuck I can get going. Dude, Daft Punk, Around the World, that music video fucking melted him. He's like, oh shit.
Starting point is 00:10:01 Like the way he was getting hype. Like pushing you. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%. He was, I was like, okay. I'm like, oh shit like the way he was getting like yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah 100% He was I was like, okay. I'm like I'm locked in I know then I'm like, okay Michelle gondry I think we got something then I said the other one with Kylie Minogue Come into my world come come come into my world
Starting point is 00:10:23 Okay, he was fucking with that one a little confused. Then I played Can't Get You Out of My Head. When there's just something about the, like the sort of minor key tonality of Can't Get You Out, even though it's like such a straightforward pop song, which is like, won't you stay. I was like, oh shit, it hit my fucking spine. I had tears running down my face.
Starting point is 00:10:46 It was beautiful. And shout out to everybody. I did post that on my Instagram stories. A few people were like, you okay? And I'm like, yes, yes, yes. These are beautiful tears. These are beautiful tears. All right.
Starting point is 00:10:57 Well, this is the episode where we get to know you a little bit better by letting you know what we think's underrated, what we think's overrated. You wanna kick us off with something you think is underrated? Underrated, my God. Underrated. I would say, let's see, what did I say here? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Underrated, how well the gradual defunding of our educational system has gone
Starting point is 00:11:19 for the conservative takeover. Really, really, really important piece. Remember that documentary, Waiting for Superman in 2010? Yeah, how'd that go? How'd that go? conservative takeover. Really, really, really important piece. Remember that documentary, Waiting for Superman in 2010? Yeah, how'd that go? How'd that end up? I remember the one about how we are taking away
Starting point is 00:11:32 quality education for countless kids and it's becoming harder and harder for parents to support their kids in pursuit of a better education. Just the full court press, socioeconomics, how we're not paying teachers enough, all of that come together to have a less educated populace. Not a perfect documentary, because it leaves out a lot of other factors
Starting point is 00:11:52 in its telling of what's wrong with that. But anyway, all that to say is, I remember watching that in 2010. And like as a young person working in politics at the time, I'm like, I wonder when this wave is gonna hit our shores. And cut to now, like as I look at the election and the reactions from people to the absolute fuck shit going down in terms of dismantling agencies, it's clear that all of this is much easier when people have no idea how fucking
Starting point is 00:12:19 the, how the government works, how civics works. How any of it happens. Yeah. How anything is structured. I think for people of a certain age, you're like, what the heck is going on? Right. You can't do that.
Starting point is 00:12:32 You need that to pay people who need their social security or Medicare, whatever. And then there are other people who are like, I never heard of it. And because I never heard of it, it's probably not gonna affect me. And I think that's a really underrated part of like, how like sort of not totally frictionless this is going. But when you look at Trump's approval
Starting point is 00:12:51 numbers and things like that, it's a lot of it does have to do with just our general ignorance around civics and the basic structures of government. Like in the same way, like the Google questions that were being asked in the lead up to the election where people like is joe byron president president why not i vote for joe byron it's a lot and i get it like we we're spread thin because we're all toiling to survive and on top of that we're not we're not learning the things that we used to um but i gotta say, that's a huge piece of I think why we're sort of in the place where we are when we stop investing in our ability for our children to learn. Yeah, I feel like the Democratic Party is also like not doing a good job communicating around this. Like, you know, I feel like they're communicating the USAID thing a little bit like that's where their focus is
Starting point is 00:13:45 but like things that tend to matter more to people in the United States like education and Right, you know like the benefits that you get right like they're not really doing a good job making that make sense It's like a lot of hidden behind complexity. I think the other thing too is, you know, for people who still think the Democrats are going to do like again, waiting for Superman, he's not coming and he's not a Democrat. That's the thing. It ain't them. It's not the current version of the Democrats. No, they have been the constant gardeners of maintaining the status quo. That to think that they can suddenly ideologically change gears so dramatically to get into like
Starting point is 00:14:31 we're now fighting mode. It's just, it's a bridge too far. There are plenty of people within the party who are showing that sort of fight. But then like you see Chuck Schumer and he's like leading chance of like, we're gonna win. I'm like, what? Catchy. What are you talking. I'm like, what? Catchy. What are you talking?
Starting point is 00:14:46 When what? When what? Yeah, exactly. You just lost because you're bad at this. Yeah. Is the plan you're laying out will vote for us in the midterms after we just let this runaway train go for fucking two years straight before something like at a time when there's a crisis, you're standing there addressing a crisis,
Starting point is 00:15:07 like the dismantling of the government by the other party, rather than just saying, this is how it's gonna impact you, they tried to do a pep rally thing, they're like, we're gonna win, which was confusing. Yeah, it's not great. I was also, when they showed Trump during the national anthem of the Super Bowl. And like there was a pop like people were like,
Starting point is 00:15:30 I was like, wait, how popular is this motherfucker? And he is more popular now than he ever was during his first administration, which isn't like that popular. He's still still or actually he's above 50 percent. I think he's like fifty three, forty seven. He's like fifty still or actually he's above 50% I think he's like 47 he's like 51 maybe yeah but he yeah is more like he's Getting more popular as this shit is happening because he's like it feels like he's running unopposed in certain ways Or he's like governing unopposed. Well, that's the optics. I think that's another thing
Starting point is 00:16:01 I've talked about too with people like this past week Just when everyone's just kind of dealing with all their anxiety I'm like well He's doing like one thing that Trump is he is he pretends like he's not the real deal ever No, he is an aspiring fascist. He's not a polished fascist And you know like if if he had if he was able to actually corral Congress and do all these things through acts of Congress, I'd be like, oh shit, okay. But he has to do everything through executive order to sort of project this power.
Starting point is 00:16:33 That doesn't make him any less dangerous. So I don't say that to like be complacent. It just means there's a little more time to try and organize to properly resist all of this. But as it stands, like he's doing a lot to project that power to give this sort of impression that it's like, dude, you can't do shit about anything. And now just to lay down and let it happen. Yeah. Yeah. That's they're trying to send that message.
Starting point is 00:16:59 And I feel like, I don't know, there's some aspect of how the rest of it's being communicated. Like the response, the focus is like too technocratic or something. And so it just feels like it's not picking up, you know, like people aren't getting it. It's not coming through. Yeah. All right. My underrated is consuming classic art like old things. I saw a Chekhov play over the weekend.
Starting point is 00:17:29 Pat yourself on that. Consuming classic art is quite underrated. Hmm. I think I do. Wait, so with a nice red. Yeah, no, it's it's just like not the sort of shit that I'm usually like I'm more of a pop to me. Like I like movies. You know, like that'm more of a pop to me like I like movies you know like that's kind of my go-to thing but we had a friend who was in a play that we went and saw and you know it was a
Starting point is 00:17:55 like small theater a couple dozen people and maybe like yeah like three dozen people it was full house like every all those tickets were sold but very small theater like you were like sitting on the stage basically like a little black box theater kind of thing Yeah, and it held your attention like the like really moved but the shit they're talking about. It's like written in the 1800s and it's like kids being fame obsessed and like how fame ruins people and kids being fame obsessed and like how fame ruins people and like just feels very much like, Oh, this doesn't feel like I just assumed everybody in Russia in the 1800s was just talking about plowing wheat farms and you know, like, there's like a universality and like a timelessness to a lot of this shit that we're dealing with.
Starting point is 00:18:45 You know, back then they were like, oh, this new fad that's ruining kids' chests. Right, right, right. Making them lazy and distractible. But yeah, I don't know. There's something about the experience of like communing with something that's old and being like, ah, there's been shitty people like that for decades. And so, you know, like, yeah, one of the characters is just a like fame ruined actress and like her famous like writer husband. And like, they're just like such identifiable pieces of shit that I feel
Starting point is 00:19:26 like a lot of people have probably encountered in the modern world. Yeah, the world being terrible is nothing new. At least that's, you know, what you can learn from all of that. And like the specific ways that it's terrible even though it feels like things are kind of escalating out of control with new technology and that's probably true in some ways. In other ways, it's like a lot of working with the same problems and, you know, getting similar results. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:57 So, Miles, what is something that you think is overrated? Oh, our need to offer people silver linings constantly. You know, especially when when we're experiencing crisis, like, I think we've all done this, right? Like someone is experiencing some kind of tragic event and we try to wrap up a conversational like, you know, well, at least that dot dot dot dot, you know, at least, at least at least you have your passport. It's my, it's my one go to other than comparing it to something that's happened to myself. But Miles, my house hasn't burned down. So what am I supposed to say to you?
Starting point is 00:20:39 What do I say? I don't know how to say anything. I don't know. Anything else is uncomfortable. I get it. Right. Like we don't want to leave people on a bad note quote-unquote so to speak. But as someone that has been on the receiving end of countless, you know, like well at least you... Dot dot dot. Hey buddy. I just want to say that sometimes you just want to be like, now this is pretty fucked up, huh? And...
Starting point is 00:21:03 Right. Accept that. You know what I mean? To not, and I don't mean to say that it's violence to try and offer someone a silver linings amidst all of this, but I think it's important to really acknowledge what the experience is too, and to process that properly. It doesn't mean I have zero perspective.
Starting point is 00:21:22 Like I'm saying like, I don't, like, obviously I'm speaking very specifically about what's happened to me in my, in our, our home burning down. Excuse me. My voice cracked not because I was getting the clumped, I was out of breath. And, and I'm a man, damn it. I will not be caught sobbing on microphone again, only to Kylie Minogue music videos. Only to Kylie Minogue music videos, that's the only time I shall announce an emotion. But like, sometimes you, again, you have to honor where you're at
Starting point is 00:21:49 with a grieving and mourning process. And there's a lot of labor involved in sort of making yourself be okay to comfort another person who can't fathom your pain. And that gets a little bit exhausting. I think, because a part of that is just sort of culturally, especially in America, we just, it's all about resisting death. It's all about not accepting the inevitable. Like that is so ingrained. And it's very different
Starting point is 00:22:16 to me also being Japanese where death is very normal. Death is accepted. It's part of our cycle. It's inevitable. And thus it's something you our cycle, it's inevitable and thus it's something you do not fear. I mean obviously no one is like and I want to die but it's not sort of looked at with the same horror at times as I noticed like in America and I think also too like if we don't allow ourselves to be in pain it's also hard to adequately like acknowledge the suffering of others people when we don't acknowledge our own pain broadly. So I try to, I think just it's really important
Starting point is 00:22:52 to like really honor where you're at emotionally. Because also like when I've had friends be like, hey, like you're doing all right though. And I'm like, nah, not really. No, it's still very disorienting. And then'm like, nah, not really. Oh, shit. It's still very disorienting. And then they just start pouring sweat when you say that.
Starting point is 00:23:08 Yeah, what do I say? And I'm like, and I'm not asking you to say something to make me feel better. Like I'm not saying that. I'm just saying things are very difficult. I'm dealing with them. I have a lot of support systems in place, but it's like so many times I'm like trying
Starting point is 00:23:23 to convince myself that I'm okay or like I'm over it. Yeah. Without and I think that's a lot harder than just accepting allowing myself to be like no man like this is this is very difficult and you have to just take it step by step rather than trying to condense this process into like a three-day thing and be like yep and I'm on the other side of it and all good we're back we're back we're back. Gotta stay up. All right here we go. Yeah it makes me feel just, it's just easier. In a weird way, it's easier to live like that
Starting point is 00:23:51 than to try and sort of convince myself, maybe I'm not as affected by everything that's going on and the grieving, the loss of my community and things like that. So anyway, all that to say is I just think it's important to be very honest with ourselves about what we're experiencing.
Starting point is 00:24:08 And I think offering people a bit of optimism is great. I totally think it's great. And I think it's honorable. And I think it's also just totally fine to just be there with somebody when they're not doing okay. And you find other ways to sort of be with them as they get through something. So, um, yeah, just sit with them.
Starting point is 00:24:28 Yeah. You don't have to, you don't have to solve it. You don't have to make them feel better in the moment. Like just being there and accepting that they don't feel great right now. Yeah. And just, yeah, being, being with them, being there for that. Men have to solve shit all the time. Like so many, like so many of my homies, you know, look, I love y'all. being with them, being there for that. Men have to solve shit all the time.
Starting point is 00:24:45 Like so many, like so many of my homies, you know, look, I love y'all. A lot of the times too, it's much easier to be like, well, you know, we're gonna get this done. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. And I'm like, hey, you know what, bro? What if we were just hurting for a little bit? You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:24:59 Like that's part of the human experience. This is all part of being alive. This is all part of how we become stronger and we evolve. So let's embrace that part of it too. Hey, look on the bright side of things though. Hey, look on the bright side of things though, huh? The Eagles won. I don't think it's like, you know,
Starting point is 00:25:16 Brian the editor was saying like America's unrelenting fake optimism is tiring. Like I think it's like, like you said, it's like easier to do that, you know? I don't even know that like people realize they're doing that. I think it's just no not at all strategy You know 100% because you don't want it You don't want to leave yourself like on a note in your consciousness to be like, oh man Yeah, and then stay there, you know Because I think the other part of it too is to say you go. Oh, this is terrible. And the next thing you have to tell yourself is,
Starting point is 00:25:47 and that's okay. Yeah. And that's normal. Sit with it. Yeah. I think the reason we try and sort of like be optimistic and use optimism to get out of it is to just sort of not let it be the last thing that we're thinking. Yeah. Which is, oh, this is terrible. Rather than, and the optimism comes from saying and that's okay And that's okay, and I can accept that. Yeah my overrated is Looking on the bright side of things miles. You've been too down in the dumps, buddy Oh boy, we got cynic lava over here
Starting point is 00:26:18 No I was gonna say overrated like just all these little quasi holidays American culture has this time of year like mainstream American culture like lots of other You know cultures have big holidays from January to like the end of March Like which I think is one of the more depressing times of the year So like cultures like so you have like Ramadan, lunar new year, no ruse, you know?
Starting point is 00:26:47 And then mainstream American culture, like tries to like event invent like, you know, the Super Bowl, I think is one of our like little quasi holidays we give ourselves the Oscars, St. Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day are like these little kind of fake holidays. And I feel I don't know, And I feel, I don't know. Like I don't know how you invent a holiday out of whole cloth, but I do feel like people are probably in need of something more spiritually, like culturally significant than the Super Bowl.
Starting point is 00:27:19 I feel like the Super Bowl always leaves me feeling a little depressed. Like it's like a major event that's like, I don't know, designed by and for people who listen to like morning zoo radio, you know? Like it just feels like it has that energy. Like you're like listening to an FM radio station. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:27:40 Yeah. And then tax day is like the photographic negative of a holiday. So that's in there as well. All those things like Valentine's Day, St. Paddy's Day, Brian even put Cinco de Mayo. There's like the way we celebrate these, they're all just so consumption based. Yeah. How much fucking beer are you going to, how many wings are you going to eat on Super Bowl Sunday? How much,
Starting point is 00:28:02 what gifts are you going to buy for your significant other on Valentine's Day? How green is your shit gonna turn on March 18th from how much green crap you ate on St. Patrick's Day? Like, yeah, like to that point, there aren't many that are truly about, I mean, again, that's just because our culture is so devoid of that kind of stuff, just generally speaking. Like, we're not very spiritual. We're not spiritual really at all. And our spiritualism is tied to these like very're not very spiritual. We're not spiritual really at all. And our spiritualism is tied to these like very consumer-centric things. So yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:31 Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'm just saying people who are like, the Monday after Super Bowl should be a holiday are correct, even though it's a dead take. Super Bowl Monday, give the people some time. One thing that I think is, you create your own holidays, right? So my father-in-law, his friends have had this thing they've done since the 60s where it was called Dentist Day and all their friends have a dent, tell their work, they have a
Starting point is 00:28:59 dentist appointment, but they all just have a party. They all just get together and hang out like in the middle of the week, like once a year, they're all like, all right, cause no one works at the same place. They're like, Hey, we all got that. It's, it's the dentist party on this day. And we just use that to get together and kind of have fun and be, feel kind of cheeky. Cause we talked about, you know, we faked the, we faked the dentist appointment, but those are,
Starting point is 00:29:23 I feel like that kind of stuff is like, you kind of just got to be kind of more, just figure out something that works for you too. And then you can, those things morph into a tradition that, you know, allows everyone to kind of get together, not necessarily have to be like, and how many, how many pounds of wings are you going to bring just to be like, yeah, then we all just get together. We all went to the park or we all just hung out somewhere or whatever. It is what it is.
Starting point is 00:29:43 But I'm reading this book, what the Edge of Sorrow, that's about like, partially about like our cultural inability to deal with sorrow and like difficult feelings. And but the way that they do it is like by creating like rituals around that, like that don't already exist for people. So maybe, yeah, like I like the idea of inventing some sort of holiday, whether it be dentist's day or some sort of like, you know, holiday, if you don't already have it through religion, like a lot of religions
Starting point is 00:30:17 already have this, but if you don't already have that built in, build yourself a little holiday, especially at this time of year, so you're not overly rel on the fucking super bowl. Yeah, have a dentist day. Have you know this day? Alright, let's take a quick break and we'll come back. We'll talk a little bit more about the Super Bowl and other shit We'll be right back I'm Tisha Allen former golf professional and the host of Welcome to the Party, your newest obsession about the wonderful world that is women's golf.
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Starting point is 00:31:45 Hey, you guys, I'm Catherine Legg. I'm a racing driver who's literally driven everything with four wheels across the planet. And I've got a new podcast. It's called Throttle Therapy. This season, I'm gearing up to make history competing in some of the world's most notorious racing events, starting at the Indy 500. Join me as I travel from racetrack to racetrack in my quest to continue a memorable career in racing. I'm also gonna bring you inside stories with legends of sports, new faces from the next generation of auto racing,
Starting point is 00:32:15 and conversations with the people who've supported me throughout my career. We'll be getting into everything from karting to NASCAR, even Formula One, whether you dream about being a pro athlete or an astronaut, we're talking about what it takes to make it. Listen to Throttle Therapy with Catherine Legge, an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Starting point is 00:33:07 It's hard to say that work is broken because work is work. And the system itself doesn't favor workers. I would say that the system is unsustainable. Is capitalism and work just relentless, cruel and unsustainable, which is really my experience and my family's experience. So in that way, yeah, it's broken. Listen to the anxious achiever on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm so sick of hearing men talk about women's basketball. If only there were a professional
Starting point is 00:33:47 WNBA player with her own podcast I could listen to. Hey, this is Lexi Brown, WNBA player and professional yapper. And this is Mariah Rose, you may know me from spilling the tea on Hoops for Hotties on TikTok. And we've got a new podcast, full circle. Every Wednesday, we're catching you up on what's going on in women's basketball. And not just in the WNBA, but with Athletes Unlimited, Unrivaled, and college basketball. We've got you with analysis, inside stories, and a little bit of tea. I know you guys have seen a lot of former and current basketball players telling their
Starting point is 00:34:19 stories from their point of view, and I just think it's time for the girlies to tap in. We want to share all of the women's basketball stories that you won't see anywhere else. Tune in to Full Circle, an iHeartWomen sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeartWomen Sports. partner of I Heart Women Sports. And we're back. And any straight, did you watch the Super Bowl other than the Kendrick show?
Starting point is 00:34:53 No. Okay. I mean, yeah, I'd be lying if I said it was on and I was mostly like commiserating with friends and stuff. Cause I don't, I could care less about the teams involved in the Super Bowl. I said, like, I got chief struggling. I actually know you know what? I do love the chief struggling, especially with like that asshole kicker and you know,
Starting point is 00:35:18 Patrick Mahomes and just like that whole like mag is shit. I'm like, yeah, yeah, go ahead. Go hold that. Although I'm under no illusion that their conservatives all over the NFL. Right. But I think also the Blake Wexler of it, also shout out my boy Chris. Very loyal Philadelphia Eagles fans. So, you know, for that, from that respect, I was like, I wanted to see the Eagles win. So, yeah. And I think the Eagles fan base has 100% good politics. So I think we're good. Oh, famously, famously, famously, famously, famously.
Starting point is 00:35:50 Yeah. So I mean the just stray Superbowl observations, uh, you know, I didn't, I didn't watch the whole thing. I missed, I guess Trump was interviewed at the beginning and you know, not surprisingly for someone who can't go through an entire press conference in the wake of a tragic plane crash without like giving his opinion on like who's to blame with like zero facts on the ground. Unsurprisingly, he just was like, yeah, I'm cheering for the chiefs. Like, I'm here for the chiefs because any specifically said because Patrick Mahomes
Starting point is 00:36:22 is wife is a fan of his literally like just the chiefs swayed him with the same tactics that every dictator and leader in the world is. She wrote me a beautiful love letter. Oh, OK. It's that easy, huh? So I wish I had seen that would have been the most important thing for me to actually enjoy the game because the chiefs did promptly take a massive shift on the field specifically Patrick Mahomes who I know people talk about as the best the goat best ever do it
Starting point is 00:36:55 Didn't look like it last night. I kept asking a friend. I was like, alright, so I mean, this is a bad halftime score, right? Like and he's like, well, you never know 24 nothing.0. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, this isn't great, right? But then other people were like, no, I mean, you know, if someone could do it, it's potentially Patrick Mahomes. But I was like, but then based on what I'd seen in the first half, like, ish, I was like, oh, it doesn't look like- They didn't have shit. Yeah, they looked a little bit, I don't know. I mean, I guess I get, I get how complacency kicks in when you're like about to do your third one in a row and you're like, all right, can we? Yeah. But anyway, it, uh, yeah, a tough night for him. You know, Tom Brady was doing the game, you know, Tom Brady, who is the person who's like in competition with
Starting point is 00:37:39 him to be the greatest player of all time. And, uh, was, you know, the, the thing that everybody was hoping for in order to like get a good game was that we'd see another comeback on par with like what Tom Brady did against the Falcons and that it would be a good, you know, after they got down by so much, but that didn't happen. There's a good piece of like, um, successful quarterback psychology where Tom Brady was like, yeah, I just, you know, after a game like this, you wake up the next morning and you're like, that was a bad dream. That is not reality. That was a bad dream.
Starting point is 00:38:15 And you're just like kind of unable to accept it. Uh, but yeah, you kind of move on eventually. Just the dark, just the darkest places that somebody like that goes to. Once again, shout out to the flyover of the, you know, Air Force military planes. Once again, sucked total shit. I don't know how this remains a part of the Super Bowl. I mean, I know how it remains. It's like a trying to show off military might but I don't know try a new angle literally guys pointing the camera up and showing some planes fly by is the equivalent of like trying to take a picture of the moon it looks like shit
Starting point is 00:38:54 it's not yeah I guess it might be cool in person but I just Jenna stop throwing the fucking military industrial complex in people's faces yeah like they're like and there goes your healthcare folks. Right overhead, all right. Now let's toss that coin. Sure man, great. Like when, especially when they fly like a stealth bomber, like at the fucking Rose Bowl,
Starting point is 00:39:16 I'm like, who is this fucking for? Yeah, for little children, my kids were impressed. Oh, dude, the Geist child child bro. He hears a fucking plane It is they're still at that stage where they haven't you know For the entirety of human history up to like whenever the Wright brothers invented flight, I think it was like 1972 but like whenever that was up to that point, humans were like obsessed with flight.
Starting point is 00:39:47 They were like, that's great. Like the idea that you can fly like a bird is like the craziest thing imaginable. And like children are still like they haven't like gotten past that. They're still just like, what? I know. I tell I tell them all the time. I'm like, yeah, yeah, get over it. Please get over it. stop acting so new. Yeah. Yeah, I will say Worst dad has to go to the Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady ad where they're just did you see that one you probably if you
Starting point is 00:40:19 Weren't listening closely. No, I hate you cuz you're different. I hate you because I hate you because you hate me I'm like bro. I'm tired of seeing snoops old ass up there fucking Shucking and jiving for the dumbest shit all the time At the end I was like, oh, it's it's Robert Kraft's, you know Foe anti-semitism campaign. Yes Yeah, yeah. Yeah, this is right. This is from Robert Crafts, owner of the New England Patriots, who, you know, when he launched this anti-hate organization, he like went on the rounds of cable news saying, it's horrible to me that a group like Hamas can be respected and people in the United States of America
Starting point is 00:41:03 can be carrying flags or supporting them equating Palestinian flag with supporting Hamas and Yeah, I mean just all that shit, you know, we saw how how much the the media was just like yeah, what's your take? Okay, that'll be ours. That'll be ours, too Yeah, he claimed that a call for a ceasefire and end of the violence were expressions of the rise in anti-Semitism. So yeah, same way. Same way that D.I. is destroying white people. Yes. Yeah. Oh, you mean, OK, equity is equity. I want people to stop killing each other. And they're, of course, you hate me. And I said people should stop killing each other.
Starting point is 00:41:46 The thing is, I don't want anybody to die. Like that, that that seems to be a real problem in this war. Why don't you wear this? You should wear this jersey I found from the inaugural season of the XFL. It says he hate me on the back. Create deep cut reference. We already talked about Kendrick a little bit up top. He brought art to the halftime show.
Starting point is 00:42:08 Yeah. Mileage may vary. I think older people were confused and offended. Oh my god. Maga, bro. It's so funny how they all, like how one note the whole right wing outrage machine is. Because it's like, all right, what are we saying? Because we can't just say, I hate hearing black people talk in public. You have to say something like, I don't understand what he's saying.
Starting point is 00:42:35 I wish I could understand a word of what he said, but I just don't know. It's so terrible. It's so bad. He's mumbling. That's what most of the takes were. Then they said someone who's a Satanist. You got to be that happens every time. You're going to be able to find some Satanism in there for sure.
Starting point is 00:42:53 Same shit, too. Like they hated that. Lettuce saying the, you know, black national anthem. Lift every voice and sing at the top. You're like, why are we? It is because. Yeah. The fuck I saw some weird ass things about that too. What is hateable about that?
Starting point is 00:43:08 Because they're like, because they probably don't want to acknowledge that there's any such thing as black American culture and that it's part of America. So why would you acknowledge that at the Super Bowl? Just sing the national, don't sing lift every voice and sing. I almost said lift every chair and swing as a result, you know,
Starting point is 00:43:27 referencing the the riverboat brawl that happened. Yeah, two years ago. That was a meme. And then Serena Williams, Seawalking. I love that. That was a nice little. Williams used to date Drake. Is that? Yeah. People were like, whoa, that kicked off. I would be a common.
Starting point is 00:43:43 I mean, a tough watch for, I'd say, the president of the United States and Drake in particular. Apparently, Trump walked out two minutes before the halftime show. Oh, really? Yeah, he wouldn't. He wasn't. They said he wasn't in the, he wasn't there for. Yeah, I was surprised we didn't get his commentary.
Starting point is 00:44:00 Yeah, right. I thought he would do all right. I figured that that's a big one, but I guess he didn't. Just a little bit more hopeful. Yeah. Any complaints that I heard, I was like, oh, yeah, I also wanted more like Good Kid Mad City's like at least some good kid mad city, you know. It's just impossible to satisfy everyone. Like a Super Bowl halftime show is, you know,
Starting point is 00:44:23 I may have made it in the cold open, but like the Katy Perry, like American maximalism halftime show I think is like one of the best halftime shows in terms of like the American maximalism, is that like of it all? It was the assignment. Yeah. Goes above and beyond.
Starting point is 00:44:41 This was like artistic, like turning the GNX into a clown car and having everybody pop out of there. Like there's just so many interesting, like it was, it was definitely for, for a very specific audience, which I liked. The clown car was also for, for the kids. My kids were like, whoa, how are so many people getting out of that? Dad, can we get that car?
Starting point is 00:45:03 But yeah, also bad night for for Drake, I feel like when he says certified lover boy certified and the entire Superdome. Yeah. Said pedophile. Yeah. Any anybody at least even though he didn't say pedophile, you know, he was like, OK, I'll let you all I'll let you all do that part. He did. Minor also was everybody. I hear you like I that part. He did. A minor also was everybody. I hear you like him young. That was silly. That was still wrapped.
Starting point is 00:45:29 I hear you like him young. Yeah. And then the Super Bowl ads, I feel like they have a new tool where it's just like we're in the weird ad era, kind of like the, you know, what Tim and Eric did for Old Spice yeah has been just rippling through the ad landscape ever since and now like I feel like half of the ads are like we're doing Tim and Eric stuff the same way remember like when Dollar Shave Club did that one ad that was like a long-runner yeah and every then every fucking company had to start doing the long runner Dollar Shave Club.
Starting point is 00:46:09 And it's just funny how certain like how the advertising world kind of like coalesces around like one aesthetic for a while, just like how every trailer had some version of the inception. Yeah, yeah. It's everybody. Yeah. Most people in media are, you know, just copycats. They're's everybody. Yeah, most people in Media are you know, just copycats. They're just copying. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah So yeah, there was the very strange seal ad directed by Taika what TT in which seal Sings a modified version of kiss from a rose
Starting point is 00:46:40 That's all about Mountain Dew Baja blast and like you can't open it because you got seal flippers. How did you feel? Look, we famously love seal and Baja Blast. And Kiss From A Rose. And Kiss From A Rose. That's one of my faves. I was a bit underwhelmed, I'll be honest. Oh by the ad?
Starting point is 00:47:00 I loved when he said, Baja Baja Baja Bajaah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah-bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah-hah- bah It kind of the well ran dry for me a little bit like about about 30 seconds into it. Quickly. Yeah, I don't know. I didn't didn't strike me as like one of the better or worse ads. It was like right right in the middle. Jason Momoa just being the like I feel like his general energy in those ads is like the bad guy from the Fast and the Furious movies where he like tortures people for like a hobby So that's kind of weird. She's I think they're like do your do your Aquaman thing but I'm always reminded of when he's like sitting around having a
Starting point is 00:48:01 Tea party with a bunch of dead bodies at the beginning of the Fast and the Furious movie. What also, how did Casey Affleck's stinking ass get back on TV? He's back, baby. I mean, I know his brother directed that commercial, but I was like, bruh. He was good in Oppenheimer. We'll give him a pass. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's back, baby. He was a wildly convincing psychopath and Oppenheimer. So it seems like a good enough guy.
Starting point is 00:48:27 But yeah, I don't know. Like the the fleshy hat one. Did you see that? Oh, the to be one. Yeah. The kid has like a cowboy hat like built into his head, like on like his skull is the shape of a cowboy hat. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:41 But like the brim has like weird bends in it. So like makes you be like, is he in pain? Like, no, man. Hey, man. Nope, no, no cowboy hats. Perfect on the brim. You know? Yeah. He's he's been wearing that thing for a while. He's been doing hard work in that skull. It is because isn't that thing like and like he gets older, right?
Starting point is 00:49:01 And then he goes to a bar and he sees some like fantasy fans who got like Gandalf skulls, but they got some like fantasy fans who got like gandalf skulls But they got a real cowboy hat on top of their gandalf skull Yeah, because they think and it's just like how boys are like back in fashion or something like just be you I didn't totally follow it to be honest with you. Um, I have to I have to it's like one of those things It's like a you know, kurosawa film it needs to be rewatched multiple times to fully like get the layers. Same with the RAM Glenn Powell RAM truck Goldilocks ad. This is my plus ad where all the characters are inceptioned.
Starting point is 00:49:36 But yeah, I don't know. For some reason, the cowboy had attached the head felt like a body horror thing to me. Really freaked me out. head felt like a body horror thing to me really freaked me out. And then I was looking for AI stuff and there was a Google ad hyping Gemini AI that contained information that was not accurate. Like, there's like a Wisconsin dairy farmer who finds that Gouda cheese comprises 50 to 60% of global cheese consumption.
Starting point is 00:50:07 And there's a blogger who was like, that can't be true. Yeah. Like. Unless our pizzas have Gouda on them. Yeah. What are you talking about? How could that be? So like a thing that, it's just wild
Starting point is 00:50:22 that they had an ad, a Super Bowl ad aimed at like getting people familiar with this product that is all about like finding and contextualizing information and it had like a fact that I, any human could tell you. It's like they highlighted the problem with AI is like the lack of human intervention to be like, uh, guys, we're going to need to double check that the Gouda can't possibly comprise 50 to 60% of global cheese consumption. And so a blogger pointed that out. And then, uh, somebody from Google, Jerry Dishler was like, uh, actually Gemini scours websites and multiple sites across the web include the 50 to 60 percent stat.
Starting point is 00:51:09 Okay. There are multiple websites that tell you vaccines cause autism. Exactly. And that's the problem. That's the fucking problem. And when you Google, like, what is the most consumed type of cheese? Like it's not even, it doesn't even like, those aren't the first ones that came up It's it's so wild. Yeah I mean what a perfect an ironic encapsulation of what that whole thing is
Starting point is 00:51:32 Yeah, and then having some dude be like, well actually Just yeah, it's an it's an L man I'm sorry You you spent millions of dollars to just post something that made your product look worse than it is Wondering like what, how, what search terms did they use to get to Gouda? Is it like in the Netherlands or something? You know what I mean? Like specifically, I don't know what the fuck, like where they're Gouda like that.
Starting point is 00:51:55 60% of global cheese consumption, global being used like globally within these five families in the Netherlands. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I don't know. Very confusing. Anyways, also shout out to the alien ads. There is a alien ad with Pete Davidson for pans, I think. There's an ad. It was like a Superbowl ad for pans.
Starting point is 00:52:18 Okay. But then there was a good one with Tim Robinson and. Oh, there was? Yeah. For Totino's pizza rolls. That sounds like a good match. Yeah. Also cool quote from Tim Robinson last week that people were like, yeah, at the time that Lauren decided to have Donald Trump host SNL writers weren't
Starting point is 00:52:38 thrilled. One writer at the time said, Lauren has lost his mind. Someone needs to take a gun and shoot him in the back of the head. It was Tim Robinson. Oh, that's who Tim Robinson said. Tim Robinson said that at the time. But anyways, I think that's the trend I'm getting. We're ready for the big disclosure, guys. That's what our Super Bowl ads are telling us. There's also one where like a UFO beam of light is trying to steal someone's Doritos, I think. Hey, they got to get us in touch with the stakes here for when the aliens come. They're like, we're going to try and take our Doritos. That's right. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Starting point is 00:53:24 I'm Tisha Olin, former golf professional and the host of Welcome to the Party, your newest obsession about the wonderful world that is women's golf, featuring interviews with top players on tour like LPGA superstar Angel Yin. I really just sat myself down at the end of 2022 and I was like, look, either we make it or we quit. Expert tips to help improve your swing and the craziest stories to come out of your friendly neighborhood country club. The drinks were flowing,
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Starting point is 00:54:12 Listen to Welcome to the Party. That's P-A-R-T-E-E on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey you guys, I'm Catherine Legg. podcast presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey you guys, I'm Catherine Legg. I'm a racing driver who's literally driven everything with four wheels across the planet. And I've got a new podcast. It's called Throttle Therapy. This season, I'm gearing up to make history competing in some of the world's most notorious racing events, starting at the Indy 500. Join me as I travel from racetrack to racetrack in my quest to continue a memorable career in racing. I'm also going to bring you inside stories with legends of sports, new faces from the next
Starting point is 00:54:53 generation of auto racing, and conversations with the people who've supported me throughout my career. We'll be getting into everything from karting to NASCAR, even Formula One. Whether you dream about being a pro athlete or an astronaut, we're talking about what it takes to make it. Listen to Throttle Therapy with Catherine Legg, an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. I'm so sick of hearing men talk about women's basketball.
Starting point is 00:55:29 If only there were a professional WNBA player with her own podcast I could listen to. Hey, this is Lexi Brown, WNBA player and professional yapper. And this is Mariah Rose. You may know me from spilling the tea on Hoops for Hotties on TikTok. And we've got a new podcast, Full Circle.
Starting point is 00:55:46 Every Wednesday we're catching you up on what's going on in women's basketball. And not just in the WNBA, but with Athletes Unlimited, Unrivaled, and college basketball. We've got you with analysis, inside stories, and a little bit of tea. I know you guys have seen a lot of former and current basketball players telling their stories from their point of view, and I just think it's time for the girlies to tap in. We want to share all of the women's basketball stories that you won't see anywhere else. Tune into Full Circle, an iHeart Women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty,
Starting point is 00:56:23 founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. I'm Maura Aarons-Mealy, host of The Anxious Achiever. It's a show that looks at where we spend most of our waking hours, work. We explore how work impacts our mental health, how neurodiversity impacts our careers, and how companies impact our well-being. Is work broken? It's hard to say that work is broken because work is work and the system itself doesn't favor workers. I would say that the system is unsustainable.
Starting point is 00:57:00 Is capitalism and work just relentless, cruel and unsustainable, which is really my experience and my family's experience. So in that way, yeah, it's broken. Listen to the anxious achiever on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And we're back. And ice is putting up numbers, baby, in terms of comparisons to the Gestapo. They are just crushing it, putting up huge numbers. They're, I mean, all last week you were hearing about ice raids in so many different states, that happened in Chicago, there was a huge one in Chicago, one in Denver, and in Denver
Starting point is 00:57:57 they said they were there to quote, capture over 100 members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which is the one that they used to first foment that first immigrant panic when they're like, they're kicking down doors and they're robbing people. They weren't. So apparently after this raid, they arrested one alleged gang member.
Starting point is 00:58:22 And 29 other people were detained for unspecified reasons, which is very You know, they would specify, you know, they would throw claim those people were gang members if they had any way of doing it No, and anecdotally, I'm I've heard all kinds of shit of people just getting stopped people fucking Impersonating ICE to fuck with people. There's like, it's this whole fucking wave of, you know, raids has like brought upon all kinds of shit. And now there's news that they're gearing up for like some kind of huge action in LA. And like you're saying everyone's like, yeah, this is very Geheimnstaatspolizei, if I may use the full name of the Gestapo. Yeah, but yeah, it's unbelievable. And I think it was crazy, as JM points out, our writers, just like how a lot of people were like, yeah, this is like the Nazis,
Starting point is 00:59:15 but then it's actually the Nazis were inspired by America's horrible treatment of Mexicans. In a lot of ways. Yeah. In the 1930s. Hitler was a huge fan of the United States, like just generally, and inspired by a lot of American culture, and this one in particular, yeah. I'm surprised there isn't a move of conservatives be like, we need to reclaim Nazism for America.
Starting point is 00:59:37 That was our idea, actually, so you guys need to fucking chill out with the Nazi comparisons. Give us credit. Yeah, I mean, this was like stuff they were doing, like, you know, they were screening uh, people that were coming from Mexico to quote, forced, forced to strip naked, subjected to screenings for homosexuality, low IQ, physical deformities, like clubbed fingers. Yeah. Okay. Dr. Mengele. Yeah. Eugenics was hugely popular in the United States, like in the early 20th century. They're like, all right, well, we lost the slavery thing. What else? How else can we try and get our fingers
Starting point is 01:00:09 into everyone's lives and make and other people? And then the dis this is the other wild thing to disinfect quote unquote disinfect people as they were coming through, they were using things like gasoline, kerosene, sulfuric acid, and even fucking Zyklon B, which is the exact same gas they used in gas chambers during the Holocaust. I'm like, oh my God. What if we just crank that up a little bit? We like where they're going with this,
Starting point is 01:00:36 but what if we just cranked it up a little higher? Yeah, yeah. And I mean, to the point, there's this one author who points out David Dorado Romo, this like actual quote- I thought it was Tony Romo, the former quarterback. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is a consequential author.
Starting point is 01:00:53 Even has a quote from Hitler 19, this is a quote from Hitler 1924, quote, the American Union itself has established scientific criteria for immigration, making an immigrant's ability to set foot on American soil dependent on specific racial requirements on the one hand, as well as a certain level of physical health of the individual himself. And this was like, yeah, just, just in his musings, like, wow, interesting, interesting
Starting point is 01:01:16 how they figured that out. But yeah, I think the one thing that we have seen is that every time Tom Homan goes on TV and he's like, this is, I'm not getting away with it. Like how I want to the ice guy. It's every time it's because he's lamenting that people are know their rights. So I think it's really important for people to understand that that is the best defense against these raids right now is purely being informed and like all immigration Advocates legal experts. They've been sharing information all across social media and things like that How you should never open the door for ice?
Starting point is 01:01:54 This is something you know, they need a warrant signed by a judge ice will be like we have a warrant You're like who's it signed by it's like my friend who also works at ice and that's you go. No, that's not valid. I'm sorry. Nice fucking try. Never leave your home to follow them to be like, Oh, I got a warrant over here. Come check it out. Just exit your domicile. Never do that.
Starting point is 01:02:17 They're like vampires. It's so crazy. Like, yeah, otherwise you can be like, no, I'm good. Also have this garlic. I have a ton of garlic and wooden stakes in here. Um, you're not going to like it. Don like a barrier. Yeah, like you have to invite them in. Otherwise you can be like, nah, I'm good. Also have this garlic. I have a ton of garlic and wooden stakes in here. You're not gonna like it. Don't sign anything. And again, for people who like want to help,
Starting point is 01:02:31 there's a lot, there's a huge need for people who are like notaries or like lawyers, people who can work as interpreters. Because as Tom Homan said, like in Chicago, that those raids did not go as well because he said the people were quote too educated to well Educated that's what that was a quote from Fucking borders are Tom Homan. They're too well educated. They call it know your rights. I call it how to escape arrest
Starting point is 01:02:56 Oh, okay. Yeah, it is my right to escape arrest if you don't have you don't have anything on the asshole They call it. It's such a stupid again. You're so dumb, you just go, they call it know your rights. I call it getting away with your crimes. And what have you, sir? And what have you? Yeah. Yeah, this is just, yeah, I mean, this is not slowing down, but this is again, like,
Starting point is 01:03:21 there's no catch all at the moment to how this is how we all push back and how we resist these things. But there are clearly there are ways to slow this thing down. One of them for sure is to inform yourself and others in your community who could be at risk from harassment by ICE to know what their actual rights are rather than, you know, finding the guy who just put on a, you know, a fucking tactical vest with police on it and be like, I know everything now. Come with me so I can completely violate your rights. So let's continue to inform ourselves, at least in this dimension, or at least this
Starting point is 01:03:59 aspect against pushing back against this ICE nonsense. He also said that the Colorado raid didn't go as well as he had hoped. So because of local activists and community members. So it is working. Love to hear that. Like this is the sort of local action that can actually be helpful while we're waiting to figure out what's gonna happen at a more national level.
Starting point is 01:04:21 Yeah, because when you read like the writings of people that were involved in like resistance movements, like in World War II and stuff, it's like, the theme there isn't always like, it's not to beat the Nazis. Like we cannot, we just don't have the infrastructure or the ability to fight off an entire army like that. The point is to cause as much friction as possible,
Starting point is 01:04:44 to make things as friction as possible to make things as difficult as possible to sabotage when necessary. And these are the kinds of ways we're seeing that sort of play out in these very sort of micro scenarios. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, again, which is so weird to think it's like, yeah, we're sabotaging them by knowing our rights. Unfortunately, that's the way. But telling them what is legal. Right. Yeah. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday morning, February 10th.
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