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Episode Date: April 7, 2024

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who is working to help address modern-day redlining by trying to overturn the Thurmond Amendment. Please welcome to the show Yusuf Dahl. I appreciate that. I wish I had an AKA I could reference, but it's just Yusuf. Yeah, it's just Yusuf. Sometimes the name is enough, you know, it precedes you. Yusuf coming, Yusuf coming. Valley of the Dahl? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about that one. I don't know.

Let's not do that. Doll parts by whole. Bring it back to the nineties. Is that the one? Someday. Yeah. Well, thank God.

Is that, is that doll parts? I don't know, man. Not a lot of Courtney love Cobain fans in here, huh? Okay. I was,

I was Cobain, but I, uh, i think hole went a little too hard for me look man i'm still getting over this idea of peanut butter and jelly together i mean that's that's crazy all right oh yeah yep you will ache like i ache that's doll parts oh doll parts. Thank you, 1994 brain. You're welcome. But Yusuf, where are you coming to us from? Allentown, Pennsylvania. Okay, okay. I mean, it's kind of a seminal place in terms of housing when we're talking about housing, right?

Certainly. I think it's the type of city that's emblematic of a lot of our cities across the country that really are a tale of two cities, right? There's places in this community that are vibrant and thriving, and there's a lot of other parts in the city that have, quite frankly, been left behind. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. I'm really looking forward to our discussion because, as you were saying before you know, like when we have these guests on to talk about a specific subject, I mean, just the, the Thurman amendment just opens the door to so many different conversations, whether it's about our carceral system, whether it's about housing, how we view housing and, and what even, how, how America even does its threat assessments. And they typically just end up being just overtly racist. And this is no exception. There's no exception. What is the attitude in Allentown toward the Billy Joel song?

One of ambivalence. Well, it's a good song, right? So I think it's kind of hard not to like the song, but I think the city has really done a tremendous job of reinventing itself. And so, you know, there's the sense that that song really doesn't represent the spirit and the future of Allentown today. So there's a level of ambivalence. But it's Billy Joel, so you can't really, you know, hate it too much. I mean, it opens up. Well, we're living here in Allentown. And, you know, I mean, those are the only lyrics that I know. So I was going to try and say something profound about it,

but I can't remember any of the other parts. Something about a factory town. There you go. Welcome to our podcast, Yusuf. It's called Trying to Remember What That Song About. Incisive commentary like, well, we're living here in Allentown is a lyric in Allentown. All right, great. Well, we're going to talk about housing in a moment.

But before we get into our expert guests area of expertise, we do like to get to know you a little bit better by asking what's either something from your search history that's revealing about who you are, or something that you have recently screencapped, short for screencaptured, that is revealing about. Screenshotted, even. Screenshotted, even. Screenshotted. Yeah. So my last screenshot was actually a list of Republicans on the Financial Services Committee. So directly related to this work on the

Thurman Amendment, as I'm sure we're going to get into, this is going to be a big month because we have legislation that's going to be introduced, but we're trying to make it bipartisan. And so I'm doing a lot of work trying to identify folks on the right who might be interested in this common sense reform to extend opportunity. How's it going? How are you feeling about that? You see any names on there that you're like, they seem to exist in a version of reality? I tend to be an optimistic person. I always feel like the thing with legislation is the key is to actually get in front of these people. So for me, the challenge is how do you how do you look at this list and how do you mine your network to get in the door?

Because you believe that if you can just get in front of these people and explain what you're trying to do, common sense will prevail and you'll get through. Right. Is that do you think that's, I mean, I guess there's something with housing. How do you, how would, how do you sort of tailor this argument to appeal to someone like Ron Johnson, who has dealt in all kinds of really backwards thinking out loud when it comes to things like the carceral system or race and things like that? Do you have to, is he actually be like, oh, that's messed up. Like, uh, people who've just had a drug charge can't get into housing. Like, yeah, I want to do that. Or is it, or like, how do you thread that needle? Because from my perspective, I'm like, what do you tell Ron Johnson to, to try and get him to see the light

in terms of something like this is common sense reform. Like that there's no net negative here. This is like about just like making things a little bit more equitable. And he'll be like, what is that, woke? But yeah, I'm curious, what's the dance with something like that? Well, so I think, first of all, you always have to contextualize this in the framework of opportunity, right? Because in theory, everybody wants to extend opportunity to people in this country. In theory, everybody wants to extend opportunity to people in this country. And so it was really about legislation like the Thurman Amendment denies people who've been justice impacted the ability to be judged based on market measures and assessments of risk, right? So the market has a

way of predicting or suggesting how reliable you're going to be as a creditor. Right. So it's your credit score. It's it's your income history. There's a lot of different measures that objectively the market assigns to you to suggest your risk profile. Right. The Thurman Amendment nullifies all of that. The Thurman Amendment nullifies all of that. And so the case that I made was, hey, give these folks access to the free market and the free market mechanisms of risk like everyone else. And I made the analogy that I can literally go to a bank right now and borrow a million dollars. I can do that. But I could not secure a townhome apartment because of my 25-year-old drug distribution conviction.

Right. That just didn't seem to make a lot of sense. Wow. Well, right. Now, does that translate to actual support? I mean, that's the thing, right? We will see. Yeah.

Anyone can sit across from you and say, yeah, that doesn't make sense. But what you really need are folks who are going to put some capital on the table and help you affect this change. Yeah. Abstraction is the root of the problems that are happening where it's like easier to just make somebody a concept, you know, that's like on your screen or like a, you know, a number on a spreadsheet. And when you actually get in a room with a person and they have to deal with the fact that, you know, you are a human being,

it at least for that time can make a big change. But then after the fact, it's a matter of like getting them not to go back to the comfortable thing of, you know, a system that seems to lend itself to just abstracting people and treating people as values in a spreadsheet. So, yeah, doing truly the difficult, important work. Andrew, what's something you think is underrated? I think something that is underrated

is something I did yesterday that I forgot that I haven't done in a while, which is just putting the vegan thing in a not-vegan place. To wit, I have... That sounds naughty, but go on. Burger Lords? Oh, yeah. Burger Lords has a

vegan burger. It's a burger place in Los Angeles, the one in Highland Park. It's in Highland Park, right? Yeah, yeah. They have a vegan burger that's quite good in that it's like a little on the, like, falafel-y side. Like, there's, like, a lot of grain in it

and there's a lot of, like, kind of visible texture. And yeah, it's just like a nice kind of, like, a patty of something. Yeah. And I just got that. I got a double burger with one beef, one vegan. Oh, nice. Whoa, you're down for the swirl like that?

Yeah. Okay. Because I was like, they're genuinely really different. It is a burger that doesn't really try to emulate. It's not like a just worse meat burger. Right, yeah, yeah. It's kind of like its own thing.

And I was like, oh, yeah. I love vegan hamburger. It really, like with Impossible and stuff, the experience isn't that much different to me, especially if you use normal cheese. Then I'm like, yeah, fuck it. I won't eat the beef. I'll eat the chi.

And look at me. It's better, yeah. The vegan Whopper is, I think, this one I'm positive I have said on this show before, but I'll say it again. The Whopper. The Whopper really highlights that the taste of a Whopper is just fake smoke and mayonnaise and raw onion. Right, right, right.

Perfect. Like, anything else could be in there. So it is like, yeah, you can't be eating a beef Whopper. Wexler, much experience with the vegan burgers or what? You're still pure beef. What do you do? I have a life. I have three years left. And my life expectancy is quite i've hit my ceiling already i'm on borrowed

time but i get it andrew i have a question for you so you said so you ordered a vegan patty and so it was it was a double so they were both it was a double between the same buns yeah how did you order it did you did they oh yeah did they hesitate at all or were you like two separates and then you know yeah because they have an option for a double anyway oh cool and i just said can i just get a double but can i just get one of them vegan and it is true the the guy taking my order looked at me sighed looked down at the like computer i was like okay and he's like so it wasn't it was admittedly a pain in the ass. He's like, Mark, how did I ring this up,

dude? This guy wants one beef, one fucking beef. I don't know, dude. It's a perfectly reasonable request. It just would sound odd to the ear for the first time where my friend Todd, he would do a thing where he would order a small coffee in a large cup

and it would be because he wanted to add a bunch of milk to it, which is not cool, but that's where he would order a small coffee at a large cup and it would be because he wanted to add like a bunch of milk to it which is not cool but like that's what he would do and he also was like oh but you also get more you get charged for a small but they will give you a meeting oh yeah because he's a shit this is what this kind of shit todd glass is teaching you man yes yes that's why he was my mentor yeah and that's why i order it yeah see i have a massive like a 64 gallon drum i'm drinking out of what the fuck player looks like a barrel of methylamine from breaking bad yeah with the bubble is that the fabled stanley cup is that what that is is that this is yeah i haven't i'm gonna put a child in it and like

blake has a construction orange stanley cup that does genuinely look more like a cone. Look at this tormented promo cup I've got. Yellow stone insulated mug. You're going to get a kidney stone. That's how I let white people know I'm safe. I bring this and I go, mm-mm. I got fucking nothing. Yeah.

Oh, you got to have a cup that shows your sage, baby. He's an owl. I did see a... This is the part of fucking, I guess, like TikTok, Instagram reels that I'm on. The suggested hack, which was to a similar idea as you get more in the small cup or small drink, big cup idea

is when you're at chipotle right when they're about to give you the second scoop of beans go oh actually could i get half and half beans because what they do is typically drop the the the scoop they already have they're like fuck it it's already in the spoon it's going in and then they give you another scoop of another the other bean wow beans classically the single cheapest food i know for free guac or some shit you're like yeah like even they're like dude if you just look you could have just asked me to hook it up i don't give a fuck these are beans i bring my own can ian what's something you think is overrated? Okay. Honestly, voting.

Just kidding. Not voting. I think what I was like voting. Finally. Someone said it. You heard it here first. You heard it here first. This is also kind of related,

but like I think cell phones and the internet might be over. I think it's done. It's just done. I mean, yeah, the internet just seems to be the used to be the cause of and solution to all of life's problems and now it just feels like the cause of and solution to cause of all and solution to some of life's life's problems yeah in a weird way like we'll get into it later but like with twitter like everyone's mad about getting the blue check mark i didn't used to get mad on the internet.

I used to look up funny videos of people getting beheaded and learn how to make bombs. Yeah, watching Homestar Runner and maybe some, like, gnarly car crash videos on evilchilli.com or one of those fucked up websites that I remember looking at and people would be like, what are you doing? I'm like, I don't know, dude. This shit's on here this shit's on here and then yeah you have to i think they still have um wait can i say the f word on this podcast which one you can trust of course you can wait actually that's a good question um the there there was a site called e-fucked and oh you know it internet f-u-k-t yes and uh it's all like porn bloopers and like cake or just like really niche porn like one where like a dude's dressed like as an alien he got like seven dicks and shit yes yeah look i was look i was i was in

my 20s on the internet too at one point and And I remember, and they used to do the wildest shit. They'd be like, headshot. There'd be like all kinds of weird sounds. They would like edit into shit. Bro, I'm so glad I'm off that. You know, I'm mature. You know what I mean? But that was better.

Now it's like, oh, I have to see if 100 people looked at my Instagram story. No, let me go look at cake farts. Right. Yeah. The golden era. The golden era. when it was just more like yeah it was a just a sordid lake for us to sip from you know just lemon party yeah yeah i miss it oh yeah the hits the hits uh goat sea we all know look yeah so many of those things that were just for like that's how you knew like like, oh, you were like one of them weird, bad motherfuckers, huh? Because you knew about that shit.

Yeah. Yeah. It was it was interesting running into those people where you would hear because it was word of mouth. It was when word of mouth was still more powerful than the Internet. Yeah. It's like, hey, have you seen this? This video of a guy chops this thing off? You know?

Yeah. It's a website. That's fake. That's fake. I know you're talking about. all right yeah don't yeah santa claus is not real are you gonna say that next so that's my santa claus if you want me to my santa claus is that guy from the body modification olympics or whatever that video is where he's completely yeah he's chopping off a wee wee that's fake yeah sorry to debunk that sorry to debunk that that's what i'm here for i've i've done the research so you don't have to but yeah what

were you saying uh yeah i don't even fucking care anymore that you just know so yeah i don't everything's fucking all people man the internet access something whatever go ahead no but that was the thing like back then you would just be like yo man yo have y'all seen this video and everybody will come over and you would be like getting high and shit. Everybody gather around your computer. You're at my time, my fucking like, like desktop, desktop computer. I'm like, y'all not ready for this one. They're like, oh, and now it's like so casual.

Like everyone's so decent. It really is like a, it's a terrible evolution that's occurred you know what i mean like everyone's nothing is is like shocking anymore and i think that's a really bad thing because overall we become numb to like really horrific shit but anyway that's the that's the internet of 20 years ago of 15 to 20 years ago right before obama came president um okay let's take a quick break. We'll be right back and keep talking about this technology thing.

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Yeah. A.K.A. just an overall abortion ban. Yeah. De facto, basically. It's going to go into effect in about 30 days. And then until then, there, I guess, comparatively more humane 15 week ban will be the law of the land. And like you said, like, mind you, people don't most people do not know that they're pregnant within six weeks. So yeah, this is like pretty much nobody. It's fucking ridiculous, unless you are constantly testing yourself. It's fucking ridiculous unless you are constantly testing yourself. Oh, yeah. One hundred percent. And you're like at a doctor every day, like getting like a doctor, you know, doctor visit test.

But, you know, many abortion advocates have also pointed out that because it's the third most most populous state, like engaging in this kind of bullshit puts so many people at risk, not even in Florida, but the southeast, because there are not states that are able to absorb this many patients that would be seeking abortion care are you gonna flee to alabama yeah exactly or you end up in a state where they're like what you came here for what no no so yes it's looking yeah pretty grim and like a lot of people are like well this i guess this helps because for at least until November, they will have to live in a total anti-choice hellscape that may motivate people to vote. But in that same session, the justices also gave the go ahead for a ballot measure that would protect abortion rights in the state. So that's nice. All right. Meatball, Rob, you get this one. But also because we're not total animals, it will be about seven months six months of absolute horror until you can vote this thing in and then obviously that has to get ratified etc etc

so that's a bit of the state uh the the state of things in florida and you know now it's just sort of like saying like wow they they've continued to do the same playbook where they don't realize how popular abortion rights are and abortion access is. Yeah. And every like we've seen this constantly solidly red states when this is on the ballot. People turn out in droves and rightly so to protect people's access to abortion. And then Republicans after like on Wednesdays are like, what? What happened? like on Wednesdays are like, what happened? Yeah, it is weird because it doesn't seem to be popular at all to ban abortion, except for in this kind of weird right-wing donor class that demands it. And it's like they're basically just trying to placate this really extreme fringe of voters

who seem to have no, like, there's not enough of them to swing an election yeah so you wonder why they're doing it other than just because they're assholes right well because like these donors right they're typically wealthy and also like ultra nationalist christians they're like it's like the most successful like mall construction business in the southeast so i'll use all my money to do this kind of stuff and it's like to your point like these donors have they're they don't live in the reality where right like over two-thirds of the country lives or they're like no no don't don't fuck with abortion access they're like they're like francis and peewee's big adventure like they're like a rich

kid with like the most unreal demands they're like i want peewee herman's bicycle and it's like you can't have it you fucking freak and no one wants that then women can't get abortions okay yeah what the fuck is happening no truly truly it's why all of the uh like uh it feels like every culture war issue that's been like put forth by the right has been because at the behest of these, you know, huge ultra right-wing donor class people who are just very online. So all of the issues are very online things like, you know,

woke, you know, and trans like that's, that's the stuff that they are like, this will, you know, if I'm mad about it, then the governor better be mad about it, too. And it's like, I don't think anyone I mean, there are people going out to the polls to try to like end woke.

But I don't think that on a even on like a statewide level, that's going to flip the election for you. Yeah, people, I think, forget why people like Donald Trump. And it's not because of his culture war, you know, stuff. It's because he just is like an asshole and he's funny. Yeah. And they're like, oh, see, like, it's like, I want that guy to be in the roast battle for me on the political. Yes, exactly. That's sort of what it is.

Like, because he'll fucking tell Hillary to shut up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He'll call. He'll call my enemies a bitch. And it's. Like, cause he'll fucking tell Hillary to shut up. Yeah. Yeah. He'll call, he'll call my enemies a bitch. And it's just like,

yeah, that's, that's more relatable than this. These like niche, like right wing culture war issues that people are like, I guess I'm mad about that. I don't know. Well,

this definitely has like the, the Biden camp rubbing their mitts. Cause they're like right we got a shot now we might have a shot at florida i know i mean if biden is able to pull it out in november it'll be because of how inept the republicans are at reading a room like yeah for as bad as the democrats are they're banking on that i mean they've been banking on yeah and then there's them it seems like it's the whole strategy, right? Like, we keep being like, wait, they're going to run Biden again?

But he's, like, so old. Like, that's such a huge risk. Yeah, he's old and nobody likes him. And more protesters go out to protest him than show up to his events. But for a number of years now, their strategy has been basically look at them. Right. Yeah. It's kind of working.

I mean, we'll see in November if it works. If it doesn't work, I'm very excited to be blamed personally. Yes, we will be. All of us. Everybody who ever said anything negative about Joe Biden, they'll be like, I hope you're happy now.

Yeah, I hope you're happy. This is what you wanted, right? Yeah, but it's not incumbent on the candidate to actually appeal to a wide base. I'd be like, fucking choose this one now. And you're like, yo, yo, yo, easy. I got rights, too, that I'm looking out for. I got a future, too. I'm looking out for I got a right to I'm looking out for. But it does look like if they were ever going to be like, oh, this might be a shot, I guess maybe. I mean, traditional wisdom would say Florida is not really on the table for

a flip. Right. You again, the narrative I think Biden and their campaign wants to run on is look what happened. Like this is Trump's Supreme Court that overturned Roe. And then now Republicans in general, like Rob DeSantis, the meatball pudding man, also wants to continue this trend. But then I think that's what's also interesting, too, is it puts Trump in a weird position because he's kind of tried to have it like both ways. You know, like in the past, he's been like, I that's me. That's because of my Supreme Court. Roe got overturned. And then when they when they talk about a six week ban that DeSantis is talking about, he's like, that's me that's because of my Supreme Court Roe got overturned And then when they when they talk about a Six-week ban that DeSantis is talking about He's like that's terrible that's terrible Yeah and you're like well hold on

What is it because he's I guess he's smart Enough to know how fucking wildly unpopular The issue is maybe or He was just saying that because at the time he was running Against Ron DeSantis and he's like whatever he says Is bad right so What is he gonna do is he gonna embrace the new band and be like, exactly.

They're doing it right down there. Or is he going to be like, actually vote for the ballot proposition and get that and, and help enshrine those rights and then lose the evangelicals. Because that's also, that's like half the battle with him. Like with the reason the Bible people, like the Bible people weren't up in arms about him selling Bibles is because he's low key being like, yo, trust me, you're going to have a seat at the table when it comes to national policy.

Right. But just let me fucking make my coins real quick. Look, you saw me. We saw you saw the fucking wild fake moral panic over trans day of visibility falling on Easter. We got your back. We will keep the outrage going. But yeah, it's not it's not quite quite clear how he'll play it and i think that's where the biden camp feels like well whatever he says it's going to be tough and then we'll be able to campaign off of that yeah and it's uh you know what would be easier is um running a like a candidate that people like. Nah. Traditional wisdom would say something like that, but you know,

um, I mean, it's weird how low the bar is because like the, the bar set right now, we're setting the bar at not a president doing anything good, but just saying that he will do a good thing. And they're not even giving us that. They're not even giving us the veneers not even like the lie of like no yeah we're gonna we're gonna try and you know uh broker a piece

or you know it's just like they're like well no israel's right to exist and uh they're like we had that un resolution we abstained from voting on right yeah we had the un resolution that we helped uh water down to a degree in which we were okay enough to abstain yeah and it's like you're you're not even trying to pretend well i think that's where again there's like this difference between the high information voter and then the and most people who are probably i mean like if obviously he's not going to attempt to appeal to like voters like who are like calling out all these inconsistencies no for those who aren't like for the people i was like why doesn't he get credit for the economy it's like well you could do stuff that like hits people in the pocketbook or at least hearing like right oh you're going after like these sort of uh predatory price gouging practices of companies or something like that signals like,

oh, they're like, I get that. Yeah, my bread is cheaper or my milk isn't as much money. Like, I buy so much milk now. So much milk. Having a baby. I'm like, yo. All milk. This is beer money, basically. You're spending on gallons of milk.

Like, those used to be, that used to be what beer costs. And I was like, damn. Especially that whole milk. I don't know why that's more expensive i mean i guess i do because they don't cut it yeah because they don't cut it that's that's a raw you're sniffing base bro you're sniffing base that's the shit man you know yeah it's not been stepped on i guess heavy cream is really the is real yeah that's yeah yeah yeah but the other thing too is like if that ballot measure about enshrining abortion access into the law isn't enough, the Florida Supreme Court also approved another ballot measure that would determine whether or not recreational cannabis can be a thing in the state. So you've got a body autonomy and weed on the ballot.

So that may help bring out some voters enough to do something that would change the overall color of florida i who knows who knows who knows but that's also like the bill for the recreational cannabis one is like very it's like put forward by like the biggest medical marijuana company in florida and the bills and it's like us and like our 24 friends get to run roughshod over the state with you when you legalize cannabis so that one's a little bit murky too. Also, the price of the brick is going up. Yeah. I get it. You guys want to control all of it.

Yeah, well, you know, free market. I feel like the Democrats, every time we have a national election coming up, they're like, and Florida, it might be in play. It just gets further and further away from being in play. it's always like it just like gets further and further away from being yeah i think the only for me the one thing that i feel could help is the fact that the republicans

have no monies right now yeah yeah the dollar amounts are really they it's slim pickings over there because a lot of the money's going just to trump and the rnc is like sorry where this guy's piggy bank i know it affects down ballot candidates. Can you do something on your own maybe? And I'm sure it'll get probably sorted out because these are gigantic political machines. But, you know, as it stands, if that's the situation, yeah, you might be able to see how they're like, oh, yeah, that might that might be a get. Yeah. We did talk about how on Monday's trending episode that Trump had like a good financial week where he spontaneously became like five billion dollars richer because truth social essentially went public went public

yeah but like the day that we talked about that like the shares dropped by like some crazy percentage three or twenty eight percent or something like that because of the statistics so he lost a billion dollars of that valuation already. Which I'm curious, when is he going to dump all his shares, honey? He gets six months until he can do that. Oh, six months? Yeah. But I think he can maybe borrow against it.

So he might be able to liquefy a little bit. Oh, you want to borrow against this rapidly tanking stock price? Sure. Sure. What do you want for it against this rapidly tanking stock price? Sure. Sure. What do you want for it? Are you paying him? I love that he can just go to any financial institution and they're like, all right, you can literally take this money and never pay it back. Right.

Well, now this one with that $175 million bond he paid recently in New York, that was all from a dude who was like the subprime car loan king like yeah and he's like subprime car yeah and he's booed up with like this bank like he's he's like a huge stake in this bank that is the one doing the lending and they like a lot of financial reporters like it this company does stuff where they can, it looks like money laundering made easy with this bank and how they like loan and give bonds out to people. So whatever, like we said, this is just the phase of the rock. Cool system you have there, America. All right.

So Miles, you pitched an idea to the bank robbers of America. Yeah. You pitched it as a movie, but I think we all know that you were pitching to the real world bank robbers oh yeah a string of eclipse related bank heists where each each heist is timed to the eclipse everyone's looking away i love yeah everyone's looking at law enforcement different places have states of emergency where they're having to put all their resources in one because there's so many tourists. So if you're going in, like scheduling the bank robberies in the path of totality, love this idea. We have another piece of news related to the eclipse and the criminal carceral system. New York State Department of Corrections and Community

Supervision recently announced that they would be canceling visitations on April 8th, a.k.a. Eclipse Day 2024, in facilities that lie in the path of totality. And it's not just visitation. They'll be instituting a system-wide lockdown, meaning that inmates will be locked in their housing units between 2 and 5 p.m. supposedly as a safety precaution. What? Because they might look at the sun? I don't get, like, is this just the powers of be retaining their, like, ancient fear of eclipses? You don't know what's going to happen. Yeah. We don't know what kind of power they will attain from the sun. Yeah. Right? Like, doesn't that kind of feel like what they're, they're,

they're making everybody be locked away for the three hours of the eclipse. And you're lucky we don't do it every month during the full moon. As a safety precaution. We don't know what they're going to do. Yeah. What is the threat exactly? I mean, are they listening to the show and they're like,

Oh, that'd be a perfect way. Yeah. Right. Maybe they listen to the show. But like, I'd imagine is pretty sick. Like, because it goes a perfect way to bust out of a prison. But like I'd imagine is pretty sick. Like because it goes a little bit shadowy for a couple minutes.

They're like, I don't know, man. They'll hide in the eclipse. Yeah. Well, what can we do? A system wide lockdown. I don't know what kind of cryptozoological beast they turn into when the eclipse happens. they turn into when the eclipse happens but like they had already purchased a large supply of solar eclipse safety glasses to distribute uh to distribute to the incarcerated population and then they just were like nah fuck that we're gonna we're gonna hang on to these this is really

odd like why is weird clearly like that shows real intent to allow people to observe the eclipse when you're like i mean i guess you got to look after their little eyeballs so yeah let's get these little cardboard little shields they can hold up in front of their eyes and then be like no that's it system-wide lockdown like in another context it feels like in a family like one of the kids broke a rule so we're not going to disneyland anymore no mcdonald's yeah but and so is that what happened and it's just punitive maybe like they uncovered a planned escape or something like that on the day of the eclipse it's very very odd and it's just like just like already our carceral system so fucked up it's like can some of the people who are locked up for having drugs

on them look at the eclipse they're gonna need to explain this because it is it's so that is such a baffling move that i want to know what the thinking is like this is i literally can't think of a single reason outside of like i don't know we just thought it would be like kind of fun and cruel yeah right we want to look at the eclipse and so we can't be looking at them and the eclipse at the same time. So we're going to lock them away and then go out there. It's like the worst parents in the world. Yeah. Yeah. So I've actually decided to lock my kids in a closet.

Yeah. Well, no, we're going to go to the Disneyland hotel, but they're going to stay in the hotel the whole time. We're going to be out on the. We're going to ride all the new Star Wars rides. Yeah. on the we're gonna ride all the new star wars rides yeah oh i mean it looks like uh the fuhrer i mean governor kathy hokal uh who is having system-wide subway lockdowns uh she is saying again there's 29 counties in new york that are also in the path of totality so new york is i think just also full-on state of emergency what do they think an eclipse is i'm very confused

one of the states of emergencies because they've like been advertising this is like we're in the path of totality come to niagara falls and they people heard them and they're having unprecedented levels of like travelers planning to come that they're just like unprepared for that is i mean the prison one doesn't really make sense yeah the prison they're already in a place yeah there's like no nobody's coming to the prison to view the eclipse oh yeah it's it's just weird that even the a state of emergency for like visitor like they've never had like a fucking music festival in upstate new york not like this they said that the india like the tourism that's coming to indianapolis like eclipses the amount of tourism that came to indianapolis for the

fucking super bowl by like orders of magnitude yeah it's not even like by a little bit yeah it's like yeah it's like three Super Bowls. Okay, now I'm wondering what do these guys know that we don't know about how cool eclipses are? I mean, I know eclipses are cool and stuff, but it seems like it's weird that everyone, like more so

than the Super Bowl, are like, we gotta go to see this totality. Have you been in like a full-blown path of Totality Eclipse experience? I guess I haven't. Maybe you should stop running your mouth, bro. Yeah, that's fair. You look ignorant as fuck, dude.

Listen, I'm sure it's sick. I wonder if it's super dope. Dude, just admit it's sick, dude. Yeah, I admit it's possibly sick, but like not... Nope, possibly, dude. Don't fucking mince words. Is it it's possibly sick, but like not. Nope. Possibly dude. Don't fucking mince words. I traveled to Indiana sick.

I don't think anything. That is the question that we're going to get the answer to get an illegal gun while you're there. I've been, I've been speculating that like all the footage I've seen of people in the paths of totality from recent eclipses, they always give me the impression of people after they just saw The Phantom Menace and are still trying to convince themselves

that what they just saw was awesome. But I think what's driving this massive hajj movement of humans to the path of totality that's happening is that people have had these experiences that i think like my experience with the past two eclipses has been underwhelming and the first thing you hear when you're like that call that an eclipse which is what i scream at the sky as the eclipse is happening. The first thing people say is like, oh, you have to go to the path of totality. So I feel like the marketing has been perfect to drive people to the path of totality for these upcoming eclipses.

This is a clip of people in the path of totality where it starts off. It's sunny. Okay, that looks sick. It's about to... Sunny day. Here we go. Oh, it's sunny okay here's it's about just sunny day here we go oh it's getting darker look now it looks like it's 6 p.m. 7 p.m. dang bro look at that yeah yeah oh fuck I mean... The sun's getting tiny! The sun gets tiny? The sun's getting tiny? People are screaming, dude. I'm coming!

That is crazy. This is fucking sick, dude! You need to go to the Path of Totality, Matt Lieb, and bring the voice modulator. This is so fucking sick, bro'm coming i'm coming i have now reached my my full eventuality oh shit as a spiritual being fired up i do just want to say six inmates in new york have filed a lawsuit arguing that them being denied the chance to witness the eclipse violates their constitutional religious rights sure yeah fuck that like let them i get it let them watch the

eclipse and if they turn into a mythical beast like you seem to fear then that's great news you know that makes the world so much more interesting exactly warden of the department of corrections if that happens option the IP inevitably that emerges from the inmates who turn into monsters during a total eclipse. Otherwise, shut the fuck up and let people be outside. Like, they would be outside anyway. It's just more like, you want to give them cardboard eye shields or not? Yeah. Because, I mean, one of the guys who's the plaintiff in that he's an atheist

who argued prior to them pulling the plug on this saying like it's my right to be able to observe this like i'm not as an atheist i'm like i observe through the marvel of scientific discovery so experiencing a solar eclipse is part and parcel of that my belief system and then there are other like and they're just saying so what what's the deal and then so they granted this guy the opportunity like i think last month and then they they did a u-turn on it but yeah well i guess prison wardens aren't as cool as we all thought yeah dude what happened to them i know sick not as cool as shawshank made them seem i saw the last castle with james gandalfini robert redford anyway how is it can you get a little taste of It was Shawshank made them seem. I saw The Last Castle with James Gandolfini. Robert Redford.

Anyway, how was it? Can you get a little taste of what it would be like in the path of totality there, Matt? Oh, God. My dick. Oh, the sun is making me cum. I don't know, guys. This is what you want. I don't know, guys. He's bailing on it.

What do you want? Are you happy? Are you happy now? Just a family-friendly event. The children are screaming. Oh, God. Oh, look at that. I love...

Oh, the sun is... Oh, it's getting smaller. It's getting smaller. And my dick is getting harder. The sun is, oh, it's getting smaller. It's getting smaller. And my dick is getting harder. Okay, wait.

This is the part right after that. This is now that same clip. This is from Greenville, South Carolina, where now the eclipse is now waning and the sun is coming out. So I guess we can totally hear what the full, I guess, release, for lack of a better word, is for people. Sunnier, sunnier, sunnier. out so i guess we can totally hear like what the full i guess release for lack of a better word is for people sunny here sunny here sunny here oh my god outstanding i mean look that's i'm i'm only standing in a field being like truly like they should they cut to his little kid who's just standing there with his little glasses on just staring so all he did was see the sun kind of dim and then come back yeah i don't know it's like there's something magical about the idea of it right like that like looking around like someone needs to make that movie. It'll be dope. Miles needs credit. Apocalypto.

At least 60%. It's called Apocalypto, Jack. It's called Apocalypto. Apocalypto. The Apocalypto bank robbery. Thank you. But then like just sitting in a field watching the sun turn into a smaller sun and then come back feels i don't know like even in that one which was dope feels like people are like ah so that's that's the thing then huh okay you want another group of people hooting and hollering for an eclipse everyone has the same

reaction when the eclipse comes oh man oh it's, it's happening. It's happening. Oh, yeah. Now my dick is as big as the sun. Sorry. I think it's partially people wanting to experience something they can't without doing drugs. I feel like there's that, too. That would be true. Because you're like, what the fuck? I'm like, well, I've been in a fucking k-hole before relax yeah you know what i mean but like this i get it

to this feels like there's just so much there's so many sensations that it engages and again i only say this because i can't go to a fucking path my whole thing is i'm pissed that i want to go totality that i didn't plan well enough and so I am just telling you all it's going to suck. That's what you're telling your kids? Dad, my friends are going to Niagara Falls. Are we going to? It's going to fucking suck. It's going to suck.

It's not even as good as you think it's going to be. Liam's family are fucking losers. He's only doing that because he's cheating on their mom and he's trying to make good. Break the news to them during the eclipse. It's because he can't afford their mom And he's trying to make good During the eclipse It's because he can't afford to see Dune to an IMAX But we can That's for pores Okay

Yeah Preemptively hating on the eclipse I love it I mean just like if everyone was Getting naked Having sex hating on the eclipse i love it yeah i mean just like if everyone was getting naked no children allowed obviously just adults naked and a thanos voice changer yeah and a fan thanos voice changer then i get it but until that if an orgy breaks out in the path of totality, then I will go next year. You know there is some kind of adult-only totality fuck party. Weird masks.

Oh, easily. Greek something. What's that ancient Greek drug that they all drank back in the... Wine. Yeah, that's the one. They're all drinking wine. Not Eros, but yeah, there's some there's some anyways uh henbane or some shit like no there's just like an old opium yeah we're talking about weed yeah they were enlightened you

know what i mean but yeah i could definitely see some like all right everybody get your fucking clothes off the totality's coming yeah and yeah, I'm sure there are people who are trying to time an orgasm out to the totality. For sure. And, you know, but I also think it's like equally as likely as there's like five people who are like, it's time for our group suicide. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Right. Like it's going to be like that comet cult, you know? Yeah. Heaven's gate. Yeah. So I don't know. that comet cult you know yeah so i don't know it feels you know a little bit of something for everyone i don't want to yuck their yum so i don't either but yeah no if you want to fuck in a field in the shadows of the eclipse go ahead please do i don't know is that like what i feel the i i just like that's not that's not when i'm at my most like ability like able to like appreciate deep like spiritual things like you know what i mean like when you're

looking at the sun or when you're fucking when i'm fucking i'm in the middle of like yeah i'm not like i feel like i kind of miss it now now i want to see you fuck. What kind of demonic shit are you doing? I feel the most apart from God when I am fucked. I'm Apollo. Hurry guys, take a quick break. Oh my God. That's legit. That's I think the best option i've heard yet for what to shout when the sun

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RFK 2. I guess RFK Junior. I like saying RFK 2. I was enjoying the outro to the last segment where it did sort of sound like j-lo and rfk were on tour together yeah i know yeah that i mean who knows that might help for ticket sales can't tickets are available tickets are available they are widely available please please we got rfk coming too so if y'all anti-vaxxers you can come through and hear a couple conspiracy theories in between yep you know yep i'm real and ja rule will be there too so anyway rfk jr has been in

and out of the spotlight obviously since he announced he's running for office whether it's tales of people farting loudly uh during his arguments over whether or not ashkenazi jews and chinese people were immune to covid or about how he lied about celebrities coming to his fucking birthday party. He's always getting attention for the wrong reasons. And sadly, he continues to make things worse for himself because every time he's in these stories, he just denies they ever happened. But people were like, dude, you said it or like your, your people sent the email. What do you mean? Like you had nothing to do with it. And recently he was on Chris Cuomo's show. Remember that guy?

Oh, yeah. Where Cuomo brought up the fact he's like, you know what, dude? Just for the record, you got a pretty wild fucking track record of saying freaky shit. Like all kinds. I remember you said Bill Gates is going to put 5G in people's brains and stuff and take your money or something like that. And then you had your COVID conspiracies. you're an anti-vaxxer. You're kind of one of the biggest faces of the anti-vax movement. And also your 9-11 stuff.

And I'm just going to play this clip because he just does not want to talk about it at all. Like in this very, very, very like suspicious way again. So I'll, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he has some kind of debilitating memory loss or maybe he's just full of shit, but here you decide. To that suggestion that whether it's 9-11 or the deep state or vaccines, that you believe wacky things? I don't know what you're talking about, 9-11. I don't recall saying anything about 9-11. It came out of the Bergen interview.

I'm called a conspiracy. It came out of the Bergen interview. I do not know what you're talking about. Well, in the Bergen interview where you were saying you're not sure what happened. You know what I'm talking about, Bobby. I'm not trying to be sneaky about it. Yeah, I'm not trying to be coy, Chris. I think if you go back and look at that interview or any interview, I never voiced a conspiracy theory.

Okay, sir, you can't. This is something no one can do in the year of our Lord 2024. You can't be like, yeah, go check the tape. Motherfuckers, everything is there. Everything is there. So, again, in this clip, people just people just said okay here it is let's just cut to that earlier interview chris cuomo is referencing and just hear what exact what version of the 9-11 thing he was in on there's i know there's strange things that happen that don't seem what what are

the strange things well one of the buildings came down that wasn't hit by a plane so you know it was building 7 or building 10. That collapsed because two of the world's biggest buildings collapsed on top of it. No, they didn't collapse on top of it. My offices were down there. My offices were closed. So one of the buildings next to the Trade Center. There's pictures of it collapsing. There's nothing collapsing on top. He goes on and on. And I think this is interesting about building seven. After the investigation, they're saying that all of this debris from the collapse started all these fires within the building and like burnt the floor out and then uh like a major structural column failed

and that's why it collapsed and he's just like i don't know man i was down my offices were down there i'm just saying weird stuff but i wonder if like again do you think in his mind he's like that's not a conspiracy theory because it's true or if he's just like look bro look what why you gotta press me right now man i'm trying to fucking i'm trying to be an unserious candidate for president right now for once i'm like glad that i'm not a part of one of these legendary political families because i don't have access to whatever tanning bed the kennedys and the cuomos use because whatever it is it is a it is a faulty bed yeah for real they really they're gooses cooked you could they look like a roasted turkey for

sure their thighs are dried out oh oh those thighs definitely dry the size oh yeah yeah brittle brittle delicious but yeah it's just so good yeah but i mean like it's interesting too because even with all this right he's still polling in a way that has both republicans and democrats being like what the fuck this guy could really fuck shit up but um you know because we talk about how slim the margins are, especially in some of these swing states. And if enough people go the RFK way, that could be great news for either Biden or Trump. Depends on whose polling you're looking at. But the thing is, there's still one unknown about all of this. He's currently only on one

ballot for November. Because when you when you run as an independent, you need to gather a certain amount of signatures to get that ballot access. So right now, the state of Utah is the only one where I believe, as of this recording, he is officially on the ballot. He keeps saying things like, I'm in the process. We're getting out there in Nevada, North Carolina, New Hampshire, a couple other places. And then those secretaries of state's secretaries of state for those places are like, we don't have any we don't have any shit from him yet. Like the deadline's coming up. We don't have nothing from him. I think I'd imagine he's probably close because why spend all this fucking money just to be like, well, y'all can vote for me in Utah. Like that's not that's not a proper candidacy. And I think that's why a lot of people have looked at his new VP pick, the very wealthy Silicon Valley lawyer, Nicole Shanahan, with some raised eyebrows and be like, oh, okay, maybe you need her cash to help your ballot access mission here.

So we're not quite sure where this ends up. But, I mean mean we could know very soon i mean within the next few months like it'll be clear how far along he is because some of those deadlines are approaching like in april and may i will just say listen i i think it's been pretty clear the democrats are not exactly candy political operators or good at this and their basic jobs but they should be able to run a campaign where he is not a problem a problem yeah that should be on them i think it's probably right they're like they're they're keeping their powder dry so to speak to be like right now we got to go all in on just basically being like trump is bad and don't talk about like the promise of what a biden administration part two would look like just focus on him bad him bad him bad but yeah it truly is

like it's like yeah i mean if if it's like this disconnect if you need people this disconnected for reality to win against donald trump right you shouldn't have a political party that needs these people for real for real did you see that there's a new david tell special on netflix i was like i haven't seen i haven't heard from that guy in years and he had this one joke he's like he's talking about trump he's like but don't worry i'm a biden man hunter biden yeah it's stupid joke perfect david tell joke i'm a biden man hunter biden oh man um but blake are do any of are you you feeling the itch for rfk2 or no you're you're probably you're out on him you're about you're a hunter biden man right i'm a biden i was a i was an rfk1 guy for a while yeah you know i'm rfk my yeah it's hard

you know the sequel is never better than the than the original but like no yeah no it's he does every time he's one of those guys where you think he's great the idea of him in your head has to be crazier than the real thing you know because we try to characterize like people and then you watch clips of him it's like no that's pretty spot on yeah he does look that way he does talk that way he does say those things he does believe those things okay oh he does do those push-ups with that form he's always the same wait what's his push-up form uh perfect wait yeah he's just like he seems like a guy that does perfect push-ups is he oh yeah he loves him oh yeah oh that's right i remember that when he was like wearing like denim jeans looking like he was like an 80s like like prison

gang type dude it was a breathable it was one of those breathable workout denims yeah now we almost certainly this clip from a company that has advertised on daily Zeitgeist. Yeah. Yeah, like... Yep. Let's go. Oh, he keeps it low. He's really trying to engage those triceps. He keeps it really low.

Yeah, good for him. Got to. Where is he working out? It looks like a... I'm sorry, is he already... I think it's outside of SoFi Stadium. Yo, he was gassed

after like six. I mean, he's pretty old. It's pretty good for his... I know, but he's got... Do you see how fucking big his arms were? But he looks like he'd been doing push-ups already. Yo, that's right, right. We caught him mid.

Dude, I just burnt out my tries, dude. I just did that, bro. You're late. Also, it's rich coming from a guy who would do like two push-ups and be like, I need to smoke weed for the rest of the day. Yeah. No way.

Not for me. I'm trying to find a way. I find it much easier to work out if I'm a little stoned. Because I hate working out. I'm trying to find a way to make this joke without advocating political assassination. Because I think it's

mostly wrong. Good disclaimer. Except for that dude in Japan who just changed everything. We just hit him with that PVC shotgun? Yeah. It was wild too because after that, people were like the way the media in Japan handled it

wasn't like, yo, this dude is wild. What the fuck is going on? How dare he? They're like, well, what made him want to go after Shinzo Abe? And then they're like, whoa, hold dude is wild. What the fuck is going on? How dare he? They're like, well, what made him want to go after Shinzo Abe? And then they're like, whoa, hold on a second. And then that really fucking disrupted a lot of the party politics in Japan. Not in a revolutionary way, but enough that

the whole thing became about, oh, yeah, this, oh, yeah, maybe he has something. Maybe he was onto something. But anyway, with this RFK joke that you're trying to land. I'm just trying to find it somehow. But since you keep calling him RFK2, I was looking for some version of we just need Sirhan, Sirhan, Sirhan, Sirhan. Sirhan to the fourth power.

Yeah. Listen, probably don't assassinate anyone, almost certainly. No, no, no, no, not at all. Yeah, it usually never works. Usually never, but sometimes can shift the conversation. Okay, let's move on to another character from our lives. Jennifer Lopez, J-Lo. J-Lo 1.

This is just a quick one because last month, right, I don't know if, did any of you catch that, I started watching that Amazon thing she did because I knew it was just going to be fucking all over the place. Yeah. I couldn't quite. I didn't watch it. Yeah. It's like a fever dream musical, basically.

Yeah. I think she probably saw like how Beyonce was doing visual albums. She's like, oh, I can do that shit. Yeah. I'm a little surprised. Well, no, sorry, go ahead. No, no, no. Go ahead do that shit. Yeah. I'm a little surprised that wasn't. Yeah. Go ahead. No,

no, no. Go ahead with the headline. No, what do you mean? Surprised at what? Did she attempted it? No,

no, no. Go ahead. I'll be surprised at the thing you say next. I'm only surprised because I'm reading ahead in the document. No, no, that's fine.

That's fine. It's called ruining the segment, uh, Andrew. So basically she had this tour like launching alongside this like visual musical album whatever thing she did on amazon but she just quietly canceled like the last seven stops on the new tour because of alleged quote logistical issues with the promoter and then most people were like i think it's because all of these tickets aren't sold,

but who knows? Who knows? Who knows? And because of that, I think it lends a little bit more credence to that, uh, idea, that theory, because now JLo has also rebranded the name of her tour from the,

this is me ellipsis now, which is the, you know, name of the Amazon thing to now this is me live the greatest hits yes and to me that sounds like you're just trying to be like hey man i know that man know that i know that musical shit was way too confusing but trust me j-lo is back baby and we're gonna have waiting for tonight whoa with all that shit i'm real all those hits so so so please please buy a ticket i don't know i mean is that is that are we are we

all in agreement here that that may be what the case is here if you if you suddenly read title your tour to be like okay not the new album just all the good stuff i made yeah yeah no new shit right right right proven you will like this there's data jennifer lopez enjoyable jennifer lopez if you had my love for three hours straight on a limb are you ready are you happy um but yeah i don't know i i i hope it works out for her but i still always i don't know if any of you there's this vanity fair piece that was written in the lead-up to her releasing this amazon thing and i bring this up a lot because it's just so funny it's a very like honest like reporting on the process of her making this amazon thing where everyone in her life that is important

to her told her to not do it oh and that like please like you don't need to do this like it's gonna be difficult even ben affleck's like i'm telling you like i've made shit on my own it's not easy and it's gonna cause so much fucking money when nobody wants to do it like it's just like nobody wants to have my back none of it so i just didn't realize this was like considered such an overreach like i i guess i didn't realize that like j-lo is that much less popular than I think. Well, it was more of this. It was more of this specific.

It was the direction of this thing, which is like this, like deep, abstract dive, deep dive into her subconscious love life. And right. Having all these very confusing visuals, like all these people, like there was like a council of astrological signs played by different people, like sad guru, the YouTube guy and like nailed the Ross Tyson and like Jane Fonda's. And there's like a bunch of just weird stuff in it. And people are like, I don't know. I think what they want to say is like,

girl, I don't know if this is like good. You know, I'm just saying, yeah, a staged, a stage concert, a stadium tour production where she just read,

does like a live staging of The Cell. Okay. Yeah. Or Out of Sight. Or just any. But, you know. Is it just Cell? Just do some.

The Cell, yeah. Yeah. That's a Tarsim Singh joint, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Just do that. Wow. She should just have Tarsim do the fucking visuals.

You know what I mean? Yeah. And freak out her audience of people who are like, you know. Wine moms. Yeah. Or whatever the J-Lo demographic. What is the J-Lo demographic nowadays? I'm actually kind of curious.

Like, you know, wine moms and older club kids. Like, are there people? Yeah. I'm just trying to think of people who like, you know who the Taylor Swift fans are you know who a tina turner fan is you know who a beyonce fan is you know who a madonna fan is j-lo i'm like i get it but i just can't i can't like i can't sort of visualize them in like a whole stadium maybe that's maybe because maybe it's a vegas crowd you know what i mean yeah wherever tourists it's, yeah, wherever tourists are. Yeah.

Tourists of Vegas. No one who lives in the place that the concert is in will go. And then a lot of people go to another place. Then people are disappointed that she's not actually Selena. And they're like,

oh, fuck. Just do a whole, the hollering. Yeah, a whole Selena. Just do greatest hits in character

in your various movie characters wow i love that yeah you gotta if it is like a eras tour you know type of thing it's like okay so now i'm on my cell tarsum thing i'm in my selena thing i'm in my get out phase like fly girl to yeah fucking selena to riveting riveting stuff that was i'm wait i'm just trying to look i need to see because that jump that's it that's called an iconic jump because i mean what was rosie perez wasn't she also a fly girl i think i believe so let me just do that rosie these ideas take you from amazon prime to an h. You know what I mean? Or like this gives you some prestige. Or a series of TikToks.

Yeah. Which is the pinnacle. Yes. I'm just trying to look through. Let's see. Man, what? Why am I not seeing? What is this?

Oh, producer. God. You're on Google, right? She's a multi-hyphen. I was looking up all her producing credits. Okay. Let me scroll down, scroll down, scroll down, scroll down, scroll down, scroll down, scroll down, scroll down, scroll down. Okay, so, okay, did some TV. That TV show South Central.

I remember that one in 1994. She was in Jack. I forgot, the Robin Williams movie? Holy shit. Then Selena. Then, obviously, Anaconda. Then U-Turn. A big snake on the stage comes out.

Wow. Exactly. Snake budget. Oh, and she goes, it just starts off, snakes don't bite. And then Jon Voight comes out and he goes, they don't. And then when he references his scar. Oh, my God. Dude, I love that monologue he gives in Anaconda.

Anacondas are the perfect killing machine Anyway, look it up But yes, good luck to you Jennifer Lopez I feel like that will probably work If just people be like, look, I'm doing the hits, bro It's like a Super Bowl halftime show And that's fine, get your money Look, we've all

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