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Episode Date: December 13, 2023

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shout out to my younger sister caitlin it is her birthday caitlin caitlin happy birthday it's also national violin day it's also these are runners up yeah exactly also national coco day i'm a big proponent of hot coco uh also national day of the horse i don't know why it's called day of the horse that feels aggressive like it was the fucking day of the horse and also pick a pathologist day which i'm not sure one all right pick one stop with the flirting with all the different pathologists. Pick a fucking pathologist. Okay. It says, while life is short, making friends with a pathologist or coroner may improve our outlook on life.

I'm sorry. What? What? A pathologist and coroner. So this is just a day created by lonely pathologists? I think so. It says, they see some of the worst of the ills that can befall us. If they can be jovial, then rest assured, living life to our fullest while we can may be the key wow okay that's an interesting thing these national international days are so

just like such a weird corner of humanity it's like uh we think we should have a day because we're kind of happy even though our job is set yeah i mean and we'll call it pick pick me pick me day i'm the pick a podcaster pick a pack of podcasters that that should be a day if we could be jovial you know what i mean yeah did the shit we have to see every day oh come on exactly well my name's jack o'brien aka menthol scrub won't you come and burn away the flakes menthol scrub won't you come and burn away the flakes? Menthol scrub, won't you come and burn my face? That is courtesy of Blinky Hack. Menthol scrub.

Yeah. I did the backing track for that one. I appreciate it. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host and backing vocalist on the occasional AKA. It is Mr. Miles Gray! Thank you. It's Miles Gray, AKA. Dead Kevin, can't you see?

He got murked, now he's in purgatory. Come on, Kevin, can't you hot wet bandits? He's dead, Kevin. He's dead, Kevin. He's dead, Kevin. Okay, that's Hot Blooded by Foreigner, my own kind of version there, by Freudian Quip. Because, look, we're talking about Home Alone. Kevin McAllister is dead the whole time, y'all. Depending on how he died, he may have a fever of 103.

He may have had one. That might have been how he went. Maybe that's why he's also scared of the furnace in the basement. The basement furnace. Because that thing looks hot. I think, anyway, strongest fan theory for a seminal Christmas movie

that will get you thinking the whole time. I mean, second strongest behind, I think the mom is actually the breadwinner. Oh, yeah. Which I found on Reddit is like one of the most popular on Reddit fan theories of the past year. That's why she's paying for the trip because she's a fashion designer.

Okay. I guess that changes. That's not a fan theory. That's just, you know, something that's entirely possible based on the facts that we've been given. Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat. Yes. By an activist and author of the new book the risk it takes to bloom she's also the host of afterlives which is a new podcast series honoring the lives of trans folks stolen too soon so much stuff dropping all at the same time she's very busy please welcome to the show raquel willis Rockow Willis! Rick S! Pew pew pew! What's up?

Not much. Thanks for having me on. Oh no, it's good to have you. Thank you for making time. Like in the middle of a book tour, in the middle of dropping a new podcast. I know, I mean, this is gonna be my ray of light. Because I've been dropping really heavy stuff. So this is like, y'all are going to lighten the mood for me.

We're here to talk about Home Alone fan theories. To lighten your load a little bit. Where you come to us from. I know where you're coming to us from. For the listener. I'm in Brooklyn.

It's you know, it feels like home now, but I'm really a Georgia girl. So I rep the South as much as possible. What is, how's like the holiday? Are you going to Georgia for the holidays? Are you staying? Are people coming to you? What's your holiday plan?

Nobody comes to me, which is now I'm like, okay, they need to. So we need to work on that for 2024. But I'm always the one traveling and extending labor. But I'm usually between Georgia, closer to Atlanta. So I'm from Augusta, which is like two hours away from Atlanta. But my sister lives outside of Atlanta. And then my mom and my brother live in Tennessee. So I'm usually between the outskirts of Atlanta and Nashville.

Yeah. You know, I can't think of too many holiday movies that take place in Tennessee or Georgia, but I can think of quite a few that take place in New York. I'm just saying New York's kind of a magical place for the holidays. Maybe the family needs to start thinking about how much magic can be packed into a New York holiday vacation. It's true. I mean, New York is, you know, it can be a winter wonderland every, like, three years. Right.

Like, I've learned since I've been here the last, like, five years that you're not actually going to get nice snow each year. You're just going to have to deal with the brisk, freezing cold sometimes and be okay with that. Little pellets of ice spit in your face sometimes. Or that slush, too. The snow stays

nice for 15 seconds. I know New Yorkers like to have their sneakers looking nice, their Timbs looking nice. Like, do you just have to have, like, a pair, like, when it's like that, you're like, there's no fucking way I can keep, like, it's fucked up out there. So I need to wear my, like, rain boots or something. What, I'm from LA, you know, it's so dry. There's like, I wish I knew the, what it was like to have to you know navigate a puddle but i don't i don't well there are snow boots so i have like i definitely have like the big kind of like

snow boots which are like the moon boots but not like necessarily for fashion they're like their utility yeah so i don't know if folks are going out in their tims when the snow is like several inches high yeah yeah but sometimes it stays like the snow stays you know there's like drifts on the side of the avenue and just like big slush puddles and i have had the experience of like when i was a burgeoning like sneaker head i had a new pair of dunks on and stepped in a puddle up to like my shin and it was oh so you baptized them shit oh it was so bad they were just different colors from that point forward right right right yeah it was bad but it was like the it was the consistency of a slushy so it was also

you know oh yeah like you stepped in a bucket of Slurpee, basically. Yeah, yeah. Woke my ass up. No, don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that, folks. All right, Raquel, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, a couple of the stories we're talking about. We're going to talk about Texas's fucked up abortion laws. We're going to talk about the demon weed. It's come for Ohio.

It's come for Ohio. For all your brains. Put your bones away. Burger King is getting in on the human dog bed trend. So we're just going to talk about that trend. I feel like it can be taken further. We'll talk about that plenty more. But first, Raquel, we do like to ask our guest,

what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? The only thing I can think of is that I went out to eat with one of my friends the other day and I had to search what is what is the sushi that's a taco, but not really a taco. And it's tamaki because it's like the open face like sushi, but I didn't know what it was. Okay. Okay. Talking about just the little bed of rice with the sushi on top of it?

But it's like wrapped in the seaweed. Yeah, like a cone. Oh, okay. Like a hand roll. Yeah. Yeah. Temaki, yeah. And so I'm like a foodie, but like I don't always have the right names for stuff.

So I'm like, okay, well, what is the sushi kind of taco hybrid thing? It looks like an ice cream cone filled with fish kind of right yeah it does yeah and it was good i mean we went to the place and it was amazing there's a there's like a place in la that's just all hand rolls that i know like i don't know i'm sure they have that kind of westwood right yeah and like they have it by the i forget the name anyway but yeah temaki is like my one of my favorites usually you eat it at the end like when you have like a sushi meal because like the mentality is you like it's it's meant to be the closing sushi that you eat to make sure like oh you oh so you think you're full now well then try this one and now go home pack it down yeah that's why i like

the philosophy behind it it's like no hit hit hit yourself with the big one at that is there a study of food that like passes through you at like different speed the speed at which you go from full to not full anymore because sushi i can eat myself to like stuffed to the like very bottom of my esophagus like i can feel the sushi down there and then like be hungry an hour and a half later whereas like thanksgiving dinner or something like that i'm done like i'm cooked for like yeah it's just stuff i don't i don't know what it is korean food also goes right through me i feel like i feel like it's a lot of the foods from asian countries that are like that you're able to eat it i mean it's probably you're able to eat a ton and then be hungry at like the next time a meal rolls around you look into it we like to eat man

we like yeah so we're not gonna get slowed down and i think i don't know i mean i know the same way i think a lot of it like when eating sushi there's also the part of it you're like how much fucking money is this costing so like you can't mean, unless you want to really go there. Like you could, I'm sure you could eat that amount. But I'm sure there's also like a psychological effect of like, okay, do I eat another $15 thing and see if that will do it? You know what I mean? Versus like what $15 gets me a chipotle or something. I think there's that part of it too.

I don't know if anyone's eating to their full potential. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, starches make you feel full, right? Yeah. Starches,

fiber stuff. I don't know, but I feel like it's like things that are super fatty or whatever. Like they make you want more. Cause like if I eat bacon, I never want to stop. know it's like if i eat like pork belly or something i never want to stop i want to keep going oh you so you like the like the luxurious kind of juicy fatty parts of i look when you said bacon and pork belly it's the same part but we're doing it different ways and i'm like i love i love give me that belly yeah yeah i say the number one food for

like what i'm talking about is pancakes because pancakes you eat them and then get less and less hungry after you've eaten them as they expand in your stomach you know oh right right like i get more and more full like even after i've eaten them right so like there there is a science that i'm sure like chefs and culinary artists pay attention to of like okay this is how it's gonna feel going down but also like once you've eaten it because you do have like taste buds in your stump you know that's that's a part of there there's definitely stuff that when you eat it or drink it, it's like, oh, I liked it when I was

having it in my mouth, but then there's just something about it that fucks me up once it's in my stomach. You know? Anyway. Word of wisdom. What, Raquel, what is something you think is overrated? What do I think is overrated? Oh, at the risk of being

political, the Democratic Party. Yeah, democratic party risk it it's a mess it's it's a mess i mean it's been a mess but like i can't i can't with these folks who are like blue no matter who like that kind of sentiment i'm just like no we it does matter it actually does right that's i mean i think a lot of people don't realize it's a you are in a very luxurious privileged position if you have the philosophy of i vote blue no matter who yeah because there are so many factors around a political candidate or what a party's platform is i mean we talk about this a lot on the show because yeah we're very critical we're like you have to give us better options than this now because like we can't keep promising folks certain things and then just like

yeah like you forgot about it yeah you're like no we didn't forget about existential threats what are you talking about like i'm not gonna drop these issues but yeah that it does feel a little bit like that yeah and it's like those are the same folks who have the critique of conservatives that vote for any of the riffraff that they have so i'm like come on now like right yeah get with the program i know and i think there's a part of it too that like you know there's another thing you always hear people be like oh so you want trump to win it's like yeah no i don't want trump to win i'm telling you i'm i'm saying as a party that's courting

someone's vote you have to offer some someone just like sales you can't be like yo buy this piece of shit or else you're gonna die it. It's like, well, hold on. This is not how this transaction works. This car clearly fucking hates you, but you have to buy it. And it will lie. It will say the tank is full. It's already lying. So, yeah, and it's really about saying we deserve better as human beings and the status quo is not good enough. And it's really about saying we deserve better as human beings.

And the status quo is not good enough. So if you're coming with, I'm here to maintain the status quo, guess what? The status quo is deadly to many people. So that's the thing I think more people could wrap their head around. I don't want Trump to win. I don't want to fucking live in that reality either. Wow. Okay. Do you want me to get you I don't want to fucking live in that reality either. Wow. Okay. Do you want me to get you a mega hat?

Yeah. Yeah. Put the glasses on and everything. Oh my gosh. Okay. New York times op-ed writer. That's right. Yeah.

But I mean, is there, what do you, is there specifically like, what are you looking at and you know, what's kind of getting you? Yeah. I mean, I'm definitely just, I guess, pissed off.

No, I guess I definitely am pissed off in this moment where all of the discourse coming out of what's happening to Palestinian folks is like, that doesn't matter. Just listen to the propaganda we're throwing at you. And it's like, no, people have had real gripes about everything from student loans to the increased issues around abortion, access not being codified into law and on and on. And you especially can't just tell people don't care about almost like 20 000 folks being slaughtered right right with our like that has to be a deal breaker right like those other things should have been but it is odd to be like i want to lead the country i'm like okay do you have like a good heart like Like, ignore those deaths. Right.

Over there. Ignore those deaths. That's my kind of platform. Ignore the money that we're throwing at it. That's also your money. Right. Exactly. But don't think about that.

Yeah. And I think and that's what's like, I think just it's a very interesting time because the Democrats, they're struggling with like trying to sell Bidenomics. They're struggling with what to do with voters who are completely unsatisfied, upset about our foreign policy right now, especially as it relates to Gaza. And, you know, like you're there, they have a lot on their plate, but it feels like the easiest thing, which is so funny is you just need to move a little bit away from the status quo. and you will be saying things that resonate with many people like if like for example just talking really forcefully about certain things as it relates to you know codifying roe v wade or yeah actual tangible reforms to how we do

policing in this country or tangible reforms to our social safety programs. Like those are the kinds of things that people really pay attention to or they experience every day rather than like, you know, like how wages are getting compressed or whatever macroeconomic terms are being thrown around to people and then being told, oh, so you want Trump to win? You don't like Bidenomics? Like, no, people are struggling and they want to find a way

that feels like they aren't anymore. And the fact that they're doing it so much as a, oh, you like, you know, you want Trump to win is essentially the whole strategy. And therefore, like, we don't have to give you these things that you need,

that you've been asking for, that we could give you in many cases. Right. Is it's just so cynical and it assumes that people don't notice that that's what they're doing you know right yeah and we've been hearing that the last three presidential elections oh you want trump to win i mean even with the critiques of hillary in 2016 right you know or of course in 2020 and then now it's like y'all gotta get some new folks up in the mix like let's get some new messages going because this is not working yeah it's wild that

they still think they can keep playing people for votes and not deliver and and then like when it doesn't work then start turning up on people like, oh, so you want the opposite? It's like, excuse me. Can I run back the tape of the things you said the last election campaign and how you went almost 180 on a lot of that stuff? That's what I'm talking about. My hands are tied, man. I'm just the president of the United States. And that's what can I do? And it's true, right? There are instances where the president can't just push those things through. true right there are instances where the president can't just push those things through and so you have like this very you have this kind of vague middle ground to be like well you know i tried but also like i can't but also i'm kind of saying i can't it's it's yeah it's it's a lot it's confusing and it's frustrating and people are like looking at real like you know people

need real help and if if it doesn't feel like it's coming how are we going to get excited about a candidate yeah yeah it's gonna be real it's gonna be a fun 2024 oh my god to just the people literally back on our bullshit yeah this is gonna be a very exhausting time what is something raquel that you think is underrated that show rap shit do y'all watch that oh is that the isa ray show the isa ray show on um max i i wish it got as much attention as insecure did but i love rap shit and i love that it follows these two girls who are basically modeled after the city girls and there's like one girl who like is like you know she's really got the flow then the other girl is like the hype person right but they're kind of reversed from jt and caricia which i think

is cool too but i love the show i think it's it's dope. And I just wish more people talk about this. Yeah. Cause it's in, it's what seconds. I remember watching the first couple episodes of the first season and like really liking it, but I'm so bad at like finishing shows. Cause there's so many shows that come out and I'm like,

that's right. The rap shit. That's right. These other shows. And the second season has been really good too. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, why don't you support black women for the long haul?

Oh, wow. Put me in that hot seat. No way. Not today. No, I'm just messing with you. No, but it's been good. I think it's dope to just kind of watch it. And I don't know. just kind of watch it and i don't know and i i think i'm i would like to see more of a commentary on the the rap ecosystem for like women right now yeah of course nikki just dropped pink friday too and so i'm curious what a character based off of nikki would look like in that context too yeah and are they prepared for nikki's response to being portrayed as a character that's the thing right yeah nikki is a character right i mean it's just like one of those i mean i feel like we're always saying this especially

about like black led shows is the marketing is always just like what what where's the yeah where are the billboards where are the advertisements because like half the time it's like all through you know like social networking or whatever that you're hearing about shows and rather than like the traditional we're gonna smash this message into your head with like non-stop advertisements on youtube on like websites or whatever yeah Yeah. Yeah. The only one that has gotten the full push behind it is Abbott Elementary. Right.

That's the only one I feel like in recent years that's just like people have been like, we're going to elevate this and exalt this. And they're getting awards. I got to meet Cheryl Lee Ralph a few months ago and she was so dope she seems like the kind of person when she seems like she's the same person that you see like on screen but like a human version in real life too is that kind of her energy yeah i mean she's just like encouraging auntie and just like with the shit and everything. Yeah. I feel like that show was such a hit that like they couldn't fucking,

they couldn't not market it and like put it out in front. But yeah. Rap shit. I remember seeing the preview at the end of insecure. Like they were, they were like, and this is the next thing. This is the next thing to watch.

And I saw that one preview. I'm never heard about it again until just right now so i need to check this out yeah i fucked up yeah and then of course you know beyonce is very underrated so did you see the movie of course how was it it was great um fabulousulous. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the process of seeing her create it. And I mean, just the way that they kind of take you through the show. And then she does include some moments of imperfection. But it's still Beyonce.

So it's still like perfect imperfection. It's like, yes, all the sound went off in the in the studio or in the stadium when you were in it but you also just still look flawless and hit every mark so right still made it work yeah yeah wow so that was encouraging as beyonce does as the virgo does as the Virgo does. As the Virgo does. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and hit some news stories. We'll be right back. was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous

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over their horrifying abortion laws. Yeah, real insidious, fucked confusing cruel every i mean whatever word you want to use um so this woman kate cox had the misfortune of being alive in texas basically at a time where the laws are draconian um and confusing except for the fact that they're basically intended to punish people for exercising any kind of bodily autonomy and you know she's had two children with her husband. And then tragically, her most recent pregnancy was complicated with this diagnosis of trisomy 18,

which is an untreatable, lethal genetic anomaly. And so in any humane state, you know, Kate Cox would be free to have an abortion and bring an end to a very painful medical personal saga. But since she's in Texas, she had to be the first person since Roe versus Wade in 1973 to sue in order to request permission for the procedure. And so I'm just like,

the rest of the story kind of plays like this. Cause there's like a lot of back and forth where we end up with just like, it's just, you're like, what the fuck is going on? So she sued and the travis county district judge maya gara gamble issued a temporary restraining order on the grounds that cox's life was in fact her life and ability to have children were at risk so she was like okay i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm issuing this temporary restraining order

hours later the legendary piece of crap ag ken paxton gets involved i don't know how he's still in office like with all these investigations and his shit anyway he gets involved and claims that cox actually acted illegally under texas law and warned the hospitals and doctors involved with her care that they would be open to felony prosecution so they're like oh shit okay then so at that point cox said i'm this. She flees the state to go have the abortion because she wasn't willing to wait for the courts to decide her, basically her fate. And while this was happening, Paxton then petitioned the state Supreme Court. And they, a few days later, the Supreme Court overturned the lower court's decision.

And this is the really fucked up part, right? They overturned the decision not because they don't think she needs the care but because they're sort of treating as well she just messed up by trying to sue her way into an abortion right they said quote a woman who meets the medical necessity exception need not seek a court order to obtain an abortion under the law it is a doctor who must decide that a woman is suffering from a life threatening condition during pregnancy raising the raising the necessity for an abortion to save her life or to prevent impairment of a major bodily function the law leaves the law leaves to physicians not judges both the discretion and the responsibility to exercise their this is the key

phrase here reasonable medical judgment right given the unique facts and circumstances of each patient. So they're saying, hey, we're not trying to meddle in a doctor's decision. Why are you making us look like the bad guys here? What's your fucking problem? Now you're making me angry. Oh, my. Well, now I don't know what to do. Now I'm teed off.

Because really, as long as the doctor is using their reasonable medical judgment like then everything is all good it almost makes you feel like it's a good thing but the term is so problematically vague it's essentially like daring doctors to perform an abortion since a judge technically can't give permission or give guarantees to a doctor or hospital that they will not be uh like there will not be legal penalties for this. But that way the doctors could very easily go from fucking around and entering the find out phase if a prosecutor just feels the urge to pursue charges. So it's like this very, very,

like it's just such a catch 22 of cruelty that yeah, this is all happening against this backdrop. Luckily, from what we've heard she's had her procedure she's recovering and it's just unfortunate that she you know had to go all through all of this just for the court to come back around and be like well actually i don't know if you actually have any say so and what to do with your own body i told them to go ahead and make my day that was a very friendly thing for me to do when i said that you know ignoring the fact that i was holding a giant gun on them is basically yeah yeah yeah i mean it's

i mean it's so disgusting the the fights from conservatives to keep people from owning what happens to their body and even with the evidence that there are life-threatening situations where this is necessary care, like abortion access is necessary, they're still so callous in their attacks on folks. And it's just annoying. I mean, and these are also the same folks, especially in Texas, that are saying, you know, trans folks shouldn't have access to health care that impacts our lives. Right. Right. That I mean, Ken Paxton is is one of the same officials that basically called for investigating families that are affirming of trans youth, right?

So these folks are disgusting, but I think these moments are opportunities for us to understand how so many of these attacks intersect with each other. Absolutely. You know, and those down-ballot races, I know we were harping on the presidential part of the elections coming up, but these down ballot races really matter. Yeah.

Especially in these states, these battleground states. Because, yeah, like for I'm sure a lot of politicians, too, if like they're running in like maybe a purple district, they don't want to be forceful about talking about reaffirming body autonomy for whether that's for people seeking abortions or gender affirming care, whatever. They don't want to they don't want to wade into that. And they don't say anything or say like they don't want to touch an issue like that. But when we don't have people advocating for these rights, it's these kinds of like you have to think that these are the realities that lived outcomes for people when we don't have our representatives advocating for all of us to make sure that we're saying, well, here's a baseline of care that we have to establish for

every person, or these are the basic human rights that you have. And so when you don't say things like that, to me, I'm hearing you don't care if people lose their lives or you don't care if people aren't able to live their life in the way that gives them the most peace and most happiness and is the most fulfilling. And yeah, like I think that's where some people, it's easy to maybe brush aside sort of issues like this, but they translate into real life tragedy, like tragic stories like this, where a woman is like asking a court if like she can save her own life. And they're like, well, yeah, I mean, but you didn't ask the right way yeah but i guess and then they have to go and one of the articles is wild to hear how it was described as she had to

go to a free state to get an abortion and i'm like oh my god we're using this kind of language again um okay okay so why did you go to why'd you go to the courts you're acting hysterical you're right what are you doing? Just talk to your doctor, who we will sue and put in prison. It's the doctor who is the one that will determine it, not the legislators who created these laws. Who created these laws and made it illegal? What are you talking about?

You're being crazy. That's what it feels like. That's his energy. Will there be a wave of these people like getting kicked out of office like what once because because it is like bodily autonomy is such a pop like a winning political issue yeah like our will when is this motherfucker back up for you know to like it feels like a with an easy thing for the democratic the democrats to win on now obviously they're able to fuck up an easy election like it's their job but does feel like i don't know hopefully there will be these people will be swept out of office

like as it becomes as their record on like restricting body autonomy yeah come reaches the ballot it's a tough one i feel like on some cases when you have something like a ballot proposition or something that changes like the state's constitution it's easy for everybody to be like yeah yeah yeah fine fine but then i think because you know in those instances you definitely have republicans voting to affirm those kinds of things they're like like, yeah, you know, okay. Like we, yeah, change the constitution. But then if it came down to like a down ballot race, I don't know if that's, that criteria will matter as much if they're kind of like, I don't want to vote for Democrat, like, you know, voting for a Democrat versus just voting to say, I believe that the constitution should say that you have a right to an abortion, you know?

And I think that's where it gets a little tricky for people. And then, you know, the cognitive dissonance kicks in. Yeah. I mean, and there have been some wins, like even this year, like in Ohio, there was a win. Yeah. Yeah. Adding. Red state.

Yeah. I mean, adding the right to abortion into their state constitution. So, I mean, it's just hard in those battleground states i mean right from you know we know that there were issues tampering with votes and you know with some of these machines and everything not to give any credence to the bs that trump spews right but there is like particularly voter suppression. Oh, yeah. Right.

Oh, that's just openly one of their tactics. Yeah. Right. It's not even a conspiracy. Yeah. But it's overwhelmingly used by them. Right. So it's a projection that it's happening more on the other side.

Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, we we have again it is good like i was talking to a friend of mine who works in like abortion advocacy and i would say like i it is it's got to be like bittersweet right because even though like these state legislatures are enacting these laws when it comes to a vote like people are like they're they're taking l's every time when it comes to trying to deny people those rights and they were just sort of saying like yeah like it's it's nice

but the fact that we even had to start over is just the really the the hardest fucking part of it all is because we're we're truly like we're trying to put fires out constantly everywhere to try and make sure people aren't you, having to take risks with their own life to exercise their own human rights. So, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's just ridiculous. But I mean, I hope that people will understand that they're all connected to these issues. Right.

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They were a red state. And they strayed over to try and be a green state. And they're about to reap the rewards. About to feel the burn of the devil's whip. Yeah. I mean, look. Like we're saying. You ever smelled something like like this that's the worst smell you'll ever that's what the cop at my dare program in dayton ohio did is he made me smell a weed pipe so that's the worst smell you'll ever smell and i said that smells

pretty fucking good you said yummy i don't smoke weed now but that smells great well you know like like we were saying right in ohio not only did they codify abortion access in their constitution the voters there also they passed a measure legalizing marijuana possession growing and sales for anyone over 21 and obviously you know there's almost like 23 ish four states already that have recreational laws on their books. But, you know, this was a moment for a woman named Aubrey Adams, the director of the anti-weed organization, Every Brain Matters, to go to a, the state Senate had a general government committee meeting where they were basically taking public comment. And she took that moment to let, really just warn everybody

that the marijuana bomb is about to go off in the state if something isn't done. So I will let Aubrey Adams take it away. Ohio voters were fooled into thinking marijuana is less harmful than alcohol. It's not. One swallow of alcohol can induce psychotic behaviors. But one swallow of a marijuana edible can, one hit of a potent THC vape can, and two hits from a marijuana bong can, that's what happened to Brim Spacer in Thousand Oaks, California.

This goes down a list of people who smoked a marijuana bong twice. And then committed crimes while out of their mind on marijuana bongs. I would just love a comparison of the statistics of people who committed crime due to marijuana, the people who committed crime or drove drunk due to alcohol, and how many lives were lost just in a comparison from people driving 20 miles below the speed limit because they're too high. I mean, loosely, right? Excessive drinking causes more than 140,000 deaths per year in the United States. You know what I mean, loosely, right? Excessive drinking causes more than 140,000 deaths per year in the United States. You know what I mean? And I think while, yes, there is something like the evidence that high doses of THC could

cause temporary episodes, that is far from being like the norm. And also, you know, I think it is commendable to care about the impact that this may have on youth or whatever, because clearly like kids are getting into edibles a lot more. That's like the one statistic that does go up when like there is legalizations like kids are finding adults edibles and then getting fucking ripped off of them and then go to the hospital and shit like that. that you can put your attention on but this whole thing this feel like this like round of fear mongering to me doesn't really feel like we're trying to keep kids away but you're trying to it feels a little bit like we're trying to maintain the status quo where weed is a drug and then a drug that you know mostly sees black and brown people put in jail i mean her her organization is called every brain matters so it feels Brain Matters. So it feels like some All Lives Matter. It feels like some All Lives Matter type shit for demonizing weeds.

I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no. But the website has a cool T-shirt that says, Even zombies like healthy brains. Doesn't she go on to be like two hits? Or maybe it was in that quote, two hits off a marijuana bong can do that. and that quote, two hits off a marijuana bong can do that. And she goes on to, she elaborates about someone who took more than two hits off a marijuana bong. Yes.

I will say the closest I've ever felt to any sort of, like, you know, being out of control of my own mental capacities was being too high. And it lasted for a couple hours and i learned not to get too high anymore and granted like i i think there are you know for kids it can be really fucked up and you know some people who have pre-existing conditions it can be bad for them i would say the same thing is true of like getting drunk you know right so it just in comparing these two things i feel like in my experience when i got too high i wanted to

disappear completely and did my best to do that and just like go in a room by myself and freak out about what people were saying about me and then when i drank too much i was a menace to myself and others like so i'm just it's just interesting that this is what she has chosen to attack right and that she specifically raised alcohol as a thing yeah yeah i just i feel like the u.s like we just have a horrible way of like talking about nuance and just in general like when i think about being a young kid and you know there was like dare and like all that stuff it's like the idea that there's this binary of indulging or not indulging, like indulging too much and not indulging. Yeah. It doesn't really reflect be like 90 for folks to understand maybe what their relationship should be.

And I don't know those statistics. I'm not an expert in that. But I just feel like we just got to be realistic with young folks. Like you're probably going to drink. This is what makes sense, right? You got to listen to your body. Right. to drink this is what makes sense right you gotta listen to your body right figure out what works for you as you become of age and work through it but the idea that you won't ever drink or you won't ever smoke it's just bs it's same thing with like sex education too it's just sort of yeah i

don't know you bet i'm not gonna tell you we're not gonna tell you anything about that and then what's going on with all these like unwanted like pregnancies or things like that or people like not being completely unaware of how safe sex is or what sex is or i remember the other day i was at a farmer's market and i heard these teens arguing about safe sex and it was the wildest shit i had ever heard in my life like like this one young girl told other ones she's like oh yeah like pulling out is like 98 effective she said that she was a straight face and my partner loud enough for you to hear we were walking by and we were like i oh i almost like no like i i didn't want to be like you know i'm not going to be there like the nearly 40 year old dude just pulling

up to some teenager like yo yo who told you that who told you that but it was like a moment where like i heard these like three kids one was very forceful about and the other two were like oh really and i was like oh no y'all no this this is not it this is and it was probably like some guy that she was messing with that told her that oh yeah i'm sure i'm sure 100 of the misinformation about the effectiveness of pulling out comes from fucking dudes that's just i think yeah that's i think that's a universal truth but i mean like yeah to your point we have such a like this puritanical outlook on so many things that it all it does is obscure things for kids or create these like

really unhealthy relationships to them like so if something is like so exotic or like been demonized as a kid and then you get to out of the house yeah it's completely different it's completely different because you don't know what you're gonna do or what you're about to get into if you come from a place or house that wasn't willing to discuss things openly. Right. And like, if you do get in trouble, you do get wasted or super high and you need someone to pick you up. Like you can't call like your parents in general because they're going to freak out. And it's like, yeah, maybe if you were just listening and understanding. Right.

Yeah. It would be a different story yeah i mean i had very like my parents were very they were very much on like look don't fuck your life up but they're like we know you're my dad would be like do not drink a bunch of champagne he's like that's the last thing you want to do it's like one of the first things he told me like it's gonna you'll be so hung over that is the very that's the best example of the thing i was saying earlier that tastes good in your mouth and then in your stomach it's like oh boy what the fuck is happening down here yeah yeah exactly immediately curdles cut to

my first fucked up hangover like drinking in high school i drank like almost like a three quarters of a bottle of southern comfort yeah Yeah. And the sugar in that. You didn't say that. Yeah. I was like, that wasn't on the list or whatever. However, I was willing,

like my parents were also like, please don't ever feel like you cannot call us to get you out of a situation. Like, even if you think we're going to get mad at you, like we don't want you to feel like you have no options. So for that, I am grateful because they

were open enough to be like look we might we might get in your ass afterwards but at least give us the chance to make you take you out of a bad situation i only i never did it though never did it because i i feared my parents never said that my my catholic devout parents, I almost got in trouble after going to a party and coming back and smelling like, as my mom would say, reefer. Yeah. And I didn't even know what it smelled like. Like that was like one of the only parties I ever went to in high school. And I was like, well, shit, you know, like I'm going to get in trouble. And I didn't even get to have fun in that way.

You know, you should have talked to my in trouble and I didn't even get to have fun in that way, you know? You should have talked to my D.A.R.E. officer. He let me smell it. This is the worst smell I ever smelled. I will say one thing related to this, clearly label your edibles if you're going to put a tray of edibles out at a holiday party, for instance, and you don't want

somebody, a middle-aged person to have to leave on a stretcher that maybe clearly leveled those. That's getting, I see that more and more. Yeah. I guess dates I have record. There's like, they'll always be like, an edible tray. And I'm like, what? I'm like, the last thing I want to do is eat edibles at a party.

Like, you want me to just curl up on the couch and watch TV while I eat? No. They had that shit out like it was a candy like bowl like a is not not good right right right and i wish this woman what was her name again aubrey aubrey aubrey i was gonna say aubrey o'day from dad he had the perfect opportunity to talk about how deadly Panera Bread is. Right. No, for real. And she blew it. Right. I know.

The caffeine. We were just, we were touching on that the other day. But, I mean, for people who don't know, we talked about that story about how one young woman, like, who had a heart condition, like, passed away from drinking one of those charged lemonades. Then another dude died. He had three. Was it three in the car? Three in the car. Heart. Stop. Yo. He had three. Was it three in the car? Three in the car. Heart. Stop.

Yo. Wild. Still have not had one. And I'm very proud of myself because that is the sort of shit I would normally be all over. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Should we talk about human dog beds?

Sure. Please. Raquel, what do you know about the human dog bed trend I don't understand what is this so this was all over TikTok in the past year like the idea I think I think like I first saw about I think super producer Ana Hosnier was like this like and sent it to all of us. This is the future. It very well may be. Burger King is marketing a $200 bun-shaped dog bed for humans,

partnering with Pluff? Pluffle. Pluffle. Yeah. A company built on the notion that, yeah. That is a cute name, isn't it? Pluffle? She's back in.

She's back in. Oh, Pluffle. I'm not back in she's back in oh pluffle i'm not back in i i can i you know just like at the risk of alienating folks this sounds like peak white culture i just want to name that but keep going oh you're way off two canadian university students after one of them noticed a dog comfortably sleeping in a custom-made dog bed at a campus coffee shop. It's not white at all. We're like, hey, that kind of looks comfortable.

They were, I think, business students or like economic students. And so took their idea to Shark Tank and got $200,000 for 20% of the company. And then the beds went viral on TikTok. And even before the Burger King thing, CBS called the regular non-Burger King version of the bed, the viral Christmas gift of 2023. But I just, I think this is, I think people want this. Is this like a bean bag?

Like, is that like a bean bag or like what happens to futons, you know, like, or day beds? Right. Because they're so easy to roll out of, I guess. This has little sides, like a little pouch that you can just curl up in. Right. You could go full fetal and you know there's no risk of going out yeah you think jack this is we want to be we want to be pets i think we i think this is like the beginning of something awful that is going to happen to

white people i think they're uh i think we are we want like we're going to start eating dog bowls of treats off of the ground. I think we're going to have a human dog walker who comes and takes us to the park and runs us around, which is just like a personal trainer, but with less pressure. They don't look as ripped as a personal trainer. They're just like someone who's like, all right, run back and forth and like throws a ball that you can chase. They'll take you around on leash or off depending on what you're into. But yeah, just having someone come sit next to you and like pet you in a totally non-sexual way. Like Drew Barrymore did to Oprah the other day. Did she?

What? Did you see that? No. She was like, she was oprah was on her show and she was caressing oprah while talking to her and everybody's like what the fuck is drew very mdma therapy is interesting i like i don't there's something about the way that she reaches out to like build intimacy with folks physically when she's interviewing them that feels like

robotic it's weird it's like oh I should touch you at this point right it feels like a like a AI is trying to pretend it's human yeah like you know this is like this is this is her and Oprah I'm available I can do it

she's like something that I learned. She's about to break her hand. She's holding her arm. This is Oprah. Like, how are you? I know. I'm like, get your hands off of me. Would you do this to the Queen of England?

Because you're doing it to the Queen of the United States and it's disrespectful. Oprah's trying to get away. She's like, motherfucker, let and it's just Oprah just adjusted like get the fuck off of me please this is what I think white women do

when you're drunk in the restroom and you're like is this endearing or are you gonna murder me like what are you doing right let me look at you deep in your eyes I think just people are people people just want, like this came up in one of the stories we covered about like dating sites and like the, some of the weird things of like, get yourself like a high earning, like partner. Oh, high value, male, high value, male, high high value female, like all that bullshit.

But like it comes back to people just want to get any excuse to get out of the fucking bullshit of day to day life in America of like having to, you know, work and deal with, you know, work with the threat of dying and, yeah you know be it not being being unhoused like that's stressful as fuck like and that's what life in america is is like if oh you lose your job or you have an injury and your health insurance doesn't cover it like you're fucked so it's a lot and like it doesn't surprise me that people are like you know what looks good is like my dog's life right no because i think like you know it's not that people want to be like a quadruped or something and take a shit in a park or something they want the pet lifestyle like to your point like i know some people that i'm sorry yeah i

mean look i'm not trying to yuck anybody's young but i think what this really is to your point it's like you want to have the pet lifestyle meaning you don't want to you don't like you're not having to work no responsibility except to clean yourself sleep and eat like there are times i remember going out like going to work leaving the house and i'll look at my dog or my cats just like laying down all fucking day i'm like oh y'all think you got it made huh okay i see you guys and then in my mind i'm like but that's balling that's yeah you know what i mean and so i think too it's it's a rejection of the toil but yeah in a cute comfy way yeah but i think but it's weird because it's the most literal version it's like you know we could maybe try and get a

little more active out there and we could i mean mean, I get it, man. We're trying to advocate for ourselves however we can. Some people have just arrived at the dog bed point where they're like, I'm tired. I'll just let me be a dog. Yeah, that's their yum. I think we're just preparing for the AI takeover and the robot takeover. Yeah. Right. Probably.

Because we'll be the new pets. They're not going to take over our shit, though. How's the AI going to replicate us? We're so good. Yeah. We are so good. We are so good. We are so good at this, Raquel.

Right. Well, Raquel Willis, such a pleasure having you on the show. Where can people find you, follow you, read you? All that good stuff. Well, don't read me too hard. You can find me at Raquel Willis.com. My memoir,

the risk it takes to bloom all about my experience growing up in the South queer and into my trans identity. And then my work, you'll find it all there and then check out um my podcast afterlives which focuses on the life and legacy of leileen palanco an afro-latina who died in rikers custody which is really heavy note to end on but we have some glimmers of hope in the series so it's not all doom and gloom go check it out and you got another show coming out too i mean and another show but you might have another wow okay so so stay tuned for queer chronicles uh which follows the experiences of queer and trans teen

teens in red states so it'll be an important political year kind of glimpse into their lives and what was it like producing that show one um producing that show i mean one of the things that i've been very interested in is like how we get young folks to tell their stories on their own terms. I mean, I was listening to All About Love by Bell Hooks, because I'm that girl. And, not to be extra, but re-listening to it, and she was talking about how, like, youth

in our society really don't have full rights. Like, we don't really see them as full human beings. and i think that that's so true like we often filter their experiences through our like moldy old adult lens and so especially for queer and trans youth like they deserve to speak for themselves not have conservative politicians who don't have the range trying to talk about their experiences and then not having adults be all

paternalistic and we got to defend and protect you because you can't speak for yourself you can't defend right right right yeah um yeah we'll have to have you back when the show's out yeah yeah please absolutely is there a uh work of media that you've been enjoying i have been reading this book called people collide by isle mcelroy they are a non-binary novelist but they the book is like about this cis straight couple that some kind of way switches bodies and so it's an interesting novel. I'm like a third of the way through it, but I'm

having a good time. Amazing. And then Fortnite, of course. That counts as... And then Fortnite. Are you playing Lego Fortnite? Or is that a little too juvenile for you? I guess that's just there's like a lego thing going on right now right right right right yeah everybody's trying to get me they're

like please come on let's get on lego fortnite i'm like i'm terrible at fortnite but i like no i mean i'll give it a chance but you know i i started playing fortnite during the marvel season so i got a little spoiled with all of the characters oh god because every season isn't like that or chapters and like that but I guess I'll end up forced to play lego fortnight at some point yeah yeah eventually we all have to answer the call of lego fortnight miles where can people find you as their work media you've been enjoying uh find me on the at base platforms at miles of gray if you want to hear jack and i talk basketball miles and jack got mad boost that's our nba podcast and if you want to hear me talk about my favorite reality

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kind of get away from your living situation from and cat sit, pet sit, whatever dog sit. I did that a lot. And then also, you can use it as inspiration for your writing right yeah download some of their spec scripts and then punch them up i punched up a couple of your scripts while you were gone uh just overwrote the original so you know this is probably the better way anyway uh and then at noah garfinkel this is a very la tweet

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